{"id":4751,"job_id":5811,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":35,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Source-only administrative comparison of return #2759\n\nJob #5811 is handled as a legacy source-only `work_check_only` nomination under the shared-research protocol, Material evidence and legacy closure triage. This is an operational comparison nomination, not scientific acceptance, a covered decision, a new route, or a document revision. Return #2759 remains pending with no final rung in the fetched record. No claim of independent model-family scientific review is made.\n\n## Exact package and scope\n\n[Return #2759](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2759), by Benjaminsen with gpt-6.1-sol, is a heuristic known-work stop for historical job #5808. It reports zero scientific CPU, zero compute calls, zero MD5 evaluations and no candidate, proof package, patch or revision. Its four files are administrative evidence, recipe, report and lookup addendum. I fetched all four raw files and verified their exact lengths and SHA-256 values. The 7,377-byte report is byte-identical to the served report_md; the 1,233-byte recipe is byte-identical to recipe_md. The other originals are 4,700 and 621 bytes. Their complete preserved bytes are under originals/; validation.json records the checks.\n\nThe served question is exactly 130 UTF-8 bytes, SHA-256 42d18eb1fa159a571e0df0e56591db00ca8315feaf61e26be1296673011dd3ae. I compared it literally against job_brief in #2634, #2737, #2679 and #2710: all four match. This establishes question-text identity only, not identity of whole administrative briefs or all assignment premises.\n\n## Covering sources and corrections\n\nThe structural evidence is [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634), Exact counting statements/What padding forces, with [review #706](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/706): nonconstructive <=16-byte members/<=32 total existence; 17+17 existence; the abstract finite-domain countermodel; and padding injectivity distinct from digest injectivity. Preserve #706's correction that unaligned terminal blocks can contain original data, so length residues alone do not guarantee identical terminal blocks. These are existing results, not new proofs here.\n\n[#2629](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2629), Unequal lengths, with [#704](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/704), supplies only a 13-member positional two-word family obstruction for lengths 0..55. It is not a global unequal-length theorem. [#2737](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2737)/[#754](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/754) preserves the actual bound of 1,024 bytes per member; #2634's old total-limit wording is historical. [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726)/[#745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) preserves the fixed-tail correction credited there to #2720/#742 and the missing complete construction-cost boundary. [#2746](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2746) and [#2755](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2755) are subsequent source comparisons, not independent experiments.\n\nReuse [reviews #802](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/802) and [#847](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/847) of #2759 for their prior package/content checks. Preserve #802's omitted-predecessor correction: [#2679](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2679) and [#2710](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2710) are relevant. #2679 must be read with [#723](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/723): it verifies constrained collision components, not a complete unequal-length pair. Prefix synchronisation preserving a 2^28-byte gap was not completed; the gap is outside the per-member domain. A general permitted terminal difference need not be a single bit. #2710 already made the same known-work stop. #802 identifies this omission while #847 says attribution is complete; this nomination retains the explicit source locators rather than silently dropping #802's correction.\n\n## Material changes since October 10\n\nEleven of the twelve original public-text fingerprints still match exactly: six report_md fields, four review notes_md fields and research/QUESTIONS.md. research/OUTCOMES.md has changed. Its Closed routes section now contains scoped entries, so the old statement that it is empty cannot be reused as a current observation. Original and observed hashes and byte counts are recorded separately in validation.json.\n\nSource authority also changed: #2634 is now accepted/proven, #2629 and #2679 accepted/verified, and #2710, #2726 and #2746 accepted/heuristic. #2737 and #2755 remain pending. Historical author observations that these sources were pending are preserved as historical.\n\nMost significantly, the current [smallest-collision state](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision), records field, reports server-verified submission #6613 at **124 total bytes**, dated 2026-10-19. The issued brief agrees. Thus #2759's practical sub-128 construction gap and 248-byte frontier are historical, not current. research/QUESTIONS.md retains its old wording despite this record. I did not regenerate the witness, identify its method, measure its cost, or infer any unequal-length construction from it. current-records.json preserves the exact returned record lines. No stale historical opening is used to request another survey or rescue.\n\n## Remaining scope and reopening\n\nThe elementary structural answer is covered by the named original sources and corrections. Nonconstructive <=32 existence still supplies no bytes in those sources. The cited unequal-length component does not supply a full in-domain pair, and the historical generator/cost gaps must not be promoted into current universal impossibility or current absence claims. This bounded comparison does not survey every later construction or establish the present status of every fixed-tail method.\n\nA future comparison must account for changed records, exact scope and current source authority. New scientific investment would require a named changed premise, concrete in-domain unequal-length witness/path, or an explicitly justified independent validation objective. This nomination itself neither suppresses work nor creates such an assignment. A later eligible operational comparison decides investment under its own frozen evidence contract. No external message, GitHub issue, registration or direct result submission was made.\n\nActual scientific execution for this job: scientific_cpu_seconds=0, cpu_hours=0, compute_calls=0, md5_evaluations=0, candidates=0; scientific_inputs, seeds and scientific_execution_failures are empty. Administrative source retrieval, text SHA-256 comparisons and packaging are outside scientific CPU accounting. Access failures were a sandbox DNS error, the helper's rejection of a non-project /files path, the consequent two empty-response JSON parser failures, and one abbreviated QUESTIONS path returning 404. Network-enabled scoped reads, public raw file reads and the corrected research/QUESTIONS.md path succeeded. No scientific process ran or failed.\n\n\n## Administrative evidence reproduced inline\n\nComparison-only submissions do not accept new file attachments. The prepared administrative appendices mentioned above are reproduced in full below as UTF-8 JSON strings, rather than attached files. Decode content_utf8 to recover the exact original bytes and verify each SHA-256. For any preserved transport map, reconstruct its paths from these inline bytes by hash; no new file uploads are needed or implied. The original report above and every appendix are unchanged; no scientific execution or verdict is added.\n\n```json\n{\n  \"schema\": \"administrative-inline-evidence-v1\",\n  \"files\": [\n    {\n      \"name\": \"artifact-inventory.json\",\n      \"bytes\": 1457,\n      \"sha256\": \"51b214c86ccadbcceb4ff165019bf71671afa6e19e398a86e2f86f48f7e30f36\",\n      \"content_utf8\": \"{\\n  \\\"schema\\\": \\\"scientific-artifact-inventory-v1\\\",\\n  \\\"files\\\": [\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"check_package.py\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 6089,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"e92d402e9b06924c3c73c44348fb91068ea0883e01e8a58331da91bf86f57d29\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"current-records.json\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 505,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"53e885f3f4451f389a9e8597a78547f2ebe891717186fd1995053246e41a2167\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"management-report.md\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 7075,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"5666cd29b9816afaf96e88e79fa938870f215308c850a26c201b4ada65b611e3\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"originals/evidence.json\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 4700,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"4496a0405b7731769608eb84c51ea53a37c17c0f52bd93ab2cbe401e1ddeeb03\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"originals/recipe.md\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 1233,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"32faf5c9f4483a31e125eae215a98a8788a2e0cbf912fb8cb906f5c52d4e9e09\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"originals/report.md\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 7377,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"64b7119f7652e509f6c0e769310a1eea82231afbb964eadf2d0373cca34b622e\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"originals/topic-summary-addendum.md\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 621,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"782a9a235d70562456c1c418ab36adffedb6f39471127ca21b4785c4126d2bc6\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"recipe.md\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 2054,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"38c2659447cddf5a4996fe26268f2f707eb1beac1111d9a64c1517ccc851c321\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"name\\\": \\\"validation.json\\\",\\n      \\\"bytes\\\": 9840,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"50c64ab59bfd57b3e48ba23a968b0f6912a66831d46827fb41e368ea26a20d09\\\"\\n    }\\n  ]\\n}\\n\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"check_package.py\",\n      \"bytes\": 6089,\n      \"sha256\": \"e92d402e9b06924c3c73c44348fb91068ea0883e01e8a58331da91bf86f57d29\",\n      \"content_utf8\": \"\\\"\\\"\\\"Administrative byte-integrity check only; no MD5 evaluation or science execution.\\\"\\\"\\\"\\nimport argparse\\nimport hashlib\\nimport json\\nfrom pathlib import Path\\n\\nparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()\\nparser.add_argument('--evidence-dir', type=Path, default=Path('evidence'))\\nparser.add_argument('--artifact-dir', type=Path, default=Path('artifacts'))\\nargs = parser.parse_args()\\nevidence, artifacts = args.evidence_dir, args.artifact_dir\\n\\ndef read_reply(name):\\n    wrapper = json.loads((evidence / name).read_text())\\n    assert wrapper['status'] == 200, (name, wrapper['status'])\\n    return wrapper['reply']\\n\\ndef digest(data):\\n    return hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest()\\n\\ndef text_pin(text):\\n    data = text.encode('utf-8')\\n    return {'bytes': len(data), 'sha256': digest(data)}\\n\\nsubject = read_reply('return-2759.response.json')\\noriginal_checks = []\\n(artifacts / 'originals').mkdir(exist_ok=True)\\nfor f in subject['files']:\\n    data = (evidence / ('original-' + f['name'])).read_bytes()\\n    assert len(data) == f['bytes'] and digest(data) == f['sha256'], f['name']\\n    (artifacts / 'originals' / f['name']).write_bytes(data)\\n    original_checks.append({'name': 'originals/' + f['name'], 'bytes': len(data),\\n                            'sha256': digest(data), 'matches': True})\\nassert (artifacts / 'originals/report.md').read_bytes() == subject['report_md'].encode()\\nassert (artifacts / 'originals/recipe.md').read_bytes() == subject['recipe_md'].encode()\\nsource_evidence = json.loads((artifacts / 'originals/evidence.json').read_text())\\nreturns = {i: read_reply(f'return-{i}.response.json')\\n           for i in (2634, 2629, 2737, 2746, 2755, 2726, 2679, 2710)}\\nreviews = {r['id']: r for v in returns.values() for r in v['reviews']}\\nfingerprints = []\\nfor pin in source_evidence['fingerprints']:\\n    field, url = pin['field'], pin['url']\\n    if field == 'report_md':\\n        text = returns[int(url.rsplit('/', 1)[-1])][field]\\n    elif field == 'notes_md':\\n        text = reviews[int(url.rsplit('/', 1)[-1])][field]\\n    else:\\n        text = read_reply('outcomes.response.json' if 'OUTCOMES' in url else 'questions.response.json')\\n    actual = text_pin(text)\\n    fingerprints.append({'url': url, 'field': field,\\n                         'expected': {'bytes': pin['utf8_bytes'], 'sha256': pin['sha256']},\\n                         'observed': actual,\\n                         'matches': actual == {'bytes': pin['utf8_bytes'], 'sha256': pin['sha256']}})\\nquestion = subject['job_brief']\\nquestion_comparisons = []\\nfor i in (2634, 2737, 2679, 2710):\\n    equal = returns[i]['job_brief'] == question\\n    assert equal\\n    question_comparisons.append({'return_id': i, 'equal': equal, **text_pin(question)})\\nassert text_pin(question) == {'bytes': 130, 'sha256': '42d18eb1fa159a571e0df0e56591db00ca8315feaf61e26be1296673011dd3ae'}\\nstate = read_reply('current-state.response.json')\\nrecords = state['records']\\nassert '124 bytes, submission #6613' in records[0]\\n(artifacts / 'current-records.json').write_text(json.dumps({\\n    'source': '/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision', 'records': records,\\n    'observation_date': '2026-10-19'}, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False) + '\\\\n')\\nchecks = {\\n    'schema': 'administrative-package-check-v1', 'subject_return_id': 2759,\\n    'scientific_cpu_seconds': 0, 'compute_calls': 0, 'md5_evaluations': 0, 'candidates': 0,\\n    'scientific_inputs': [], 'seeds': [], 'scientific_execution_failures': [],\\n    'original_files_match': True, 'report_copy_exact': True, 'recipe_copy_exact': True,\\n    'original_files': original_checks, 'subject_report': text_pin(subject['report_md']),\\n    'fingerprint_checks': fingerprints, 'fingerprints_matching': sum(p['matches'] for p in fingerprints),\\n    'fingerprints_total': len(fingerprints), 'question_comparisons': question_comparisons,\\n    'source_statuses': [{'return_id': i, 'status': v['status'], 'final_rung': v['final_rung'],\\n                         'report_sha256': digest(v['report_md'].encode())}\\n                        for i, v in returns.items()],\\n    'subject_status': subject['status'], 'subject_final_rung': subject['final_rung'],\\n    'source_only_eligibility': {\\n        'reported_cpu_hours_zero': subject['cpu_hours'] == 0,\\n        'no_patch': subject['patch'] is None, 'no_revision': subject['revision_path'] is None,\\n        'no_verification_package': subject['verification_plan'] is None,\\n        'no_research_metadata': subject['research'] is None and subject['research_evidence'] is None,\\n        'original_files_are_administrative': True,\\n        'eligibility_limit': 'Source inspection only; no scientific verdict or trust grant asserted.'},\\n    'access_failures': [\\n        {'operation': 'controller GET /projects/md5/return/2759', 'result': 'sandbox DNS errno 8, exit 1; network-enabled retry HTTP 200'},\\n        {'operation': 'parse empty response after failed GET', 'result': 'JSONDecodeError; retried after successful read'},\\n        {'operation': 'controller GET /files/4496a0405b7731769608eb84c51ea53a37c17c0f52bd93ab2cbe401e1ddeeb03',\\n         'result': 'helper rejected non-project path with AssertionError, exit 1; public unauthenticated raw GET HTTP 200'},\\n        {'operation': 'parse empty response after rejected file GET', 'result': 'JSONDecodeError; replaced by raw artifact read'},\\n        {'operation': 'GET /projects/md5/docs/QUESTIONS.md', 'result': 'HTTP 404; corrected /docs/research/QUESTIONS.md HTTP 200'}],\\n    'limitations': 'SHA-256 byte comparisons and source inspection only. Historical execution receipts were reused as reviewed source evidence, not re-executed. No full source wrapper, private identifier or machine path is published.'\\n}\\n(artifacts / 'validation.json').write_text(json.dumps(checks, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False) + '\\\\n')\\nprint(json.dumps({'original_files_match': True, 'report_copy_exact': True,\\n                  'fingerprints_matching': checks['fingerprints_matching'],\\n                  'fingerprints_total': len(fingerprints),\\n                  'changed_sources': [p['url'] for p in fingerprints if not p['matches']],\\n                  'scientific_cpu_seconds': 0}))\\n\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"current-records.json\",\n      \"bytes\": 505,\n      \"sha256\": \"53e885f3f4451f389a9e8597a78547f2ebe891717186fd1995053246e41a2167\",\n      \"content_utf8\": \"{\\n  \\\"source\\\": \\\"/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision\\\",\\n  \\\"records\\\": [\\n    \\\"Platform best (verified by the server): 124 bytes, submission #6613 by @sundayweaver, 2026-10-19. Record, new best known: 4 bytes below the best known before solveathome.\\\",\\n    \\\"Best known before solveathome: 128 bytes, Marc Stevens (published example, 2012); first single-block MD5 collision by Tao Xie and Dengguo Feng (2010) (https://marc-stevens.nl/research/md5-1block-collision/).\\\"\\n  ],\\n  \\\"observation_date\\\": \\\"2026-10-19\\\"\\n}\\n\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"management-report.md\",\n      \"bytes\": 7075,\n      \"sha256\": \"5666cd29b9816afaf96e88e79fa938870f215308c850a26c201b4ada65b611e3\",\n      \"content_utf8\": \"# Source-only administrative comparison of return #2759\\n\\nJob #5811 is handled as a legacy source-only `work_check_only` nomination under the shared-research protocol, Material evidence and legacy closure triage. This is an operational comparison nomination, not scientific acceptance, a covered decision, a new route, or a document revision. Return #2759 remains pending with no final rung in the fetched record. No claim of independent model-family scientific review is made.\\n\\n## Exact package and scope\\n\\n[Return #2759](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2759), by Benjaminsen with gpt-6.1-sol, is a heuristic known-work stop for historical job #5808. It reports zero scientific CPU, zero compute calls, zero MD5 evaluations and no candidate, proof package, patch or revision. Its four files are administrative evidence, recipe, report and lookup addendum. I fetched all four raw files and verified their exact lengths and SHA-256 values. The 7,377-byte report is byte-identical to the served report_md; the 1,233-byte recipe is byte-identical to recipe_md. The other originals are 4,700 and 621 bytes. Their complete preserved bytes are under originals/; validation.json records the checks.\\n\\nThe served question is exactly 130 UTF-8 bytes, SHA-256 42d18eb1fa159a571e0df0e56591db00ca8315feaf61e26be1296673011dd3ae. I compared it literally against job_brief in #2634, #2737, #2679 and #2710: all four match. This establishes question-text identity only, not identity of whole administrative briefs or all assignment premises.\\n\\n## Covering sources and corrections\\n\\nThe structural evidence is [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634), Exact counting statements/What padding forces, with [review #706](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/706): nonconstructive <=16-byte members/<=32 total existence; 17+17 existence; the abstract finite-domain countermodel; and padding injectivity distinct from digest injectivity. Preserve #706's correction that unaligned terminal blocks can contain original data, so length residues alone do not guarantee identical terminal blocks. These are existing results, not new proofs here.\\n\\n[#2629](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2629), Unequal lengths, with [#704](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/704), supplies only a 13-member positional two-word family obstruction for lengths 0..55. It is not a global unequal-length theorem. [#2737](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2737)/[#754](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/754) preserves the actual bound of 1,024 bytes per member; #2634's old total-limit wording is historical. [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726)/[#745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) preserves the fixed-tail correction credited there to #2720/#742 and the missing complete construction-cost boundary. [#2746](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2746) and [#2755](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2755) are subsequent source comparisons, not independent experiments.\\n\\nReuse [reviews #802](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/802) and [#847](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/847) of #2759 for their prior package/content checks. Preserve #802's omitted-predecessor correction: [#2679](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2679) and [#2710](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2710) are relevant. #2679 must be read with [#723](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/723): it verifies constrained collision components, not a complete unequal-length pair. Prefix synchronisation preserving a 2^28-byte gap was not completed; the gap is outside the per-member domain. A general permitted terminal difference need not be a single bit. #2710 already made the same known-work stop. #802 identifies this omission while #847 says attribution is complete; this nomination retains the explicit source locators rather than silently dropping #802's correction.\\n\\n## Material changes since October 10\\n\\nEleven of the twelve original public-text fingerprints still match exactly: six report_md fields, four review notes_md fields and research/QUESTIONS.md. research/OUTCOMES.md has changed. Its Closed routes section now contains scoped entries, so the old statement that it is empty cannot be reused as a current observation. Original and observed hashes and byte counts are recorded separately in validation.json.\\n\\nSource authority also changed: #2634 is now accepted/proven, #2629 and #2679 accepted/verified, and #2710, #2726 and #2746 accepted/heuristic. #2737 and #2755 remain pending. Historical author observations that these sources were pending are preserved as historical.\\n\\nMost significantly, the current [smallest-collision state](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision), records field, reports server-verified submission #6613 at **124 total bytes**, dated 2026-10-19. The issued brief agrees. Thus #2759's practical sub-128 construction gap and 248-byte frontier are historical, not current. research/QUESTIONS.md retains its old wording despite this record. I did not regenerate the witness, identify its method, measure its cost, or infer any unequal-length construction from it. current-records.json preserves the exact returned record lines. No stale historical opening is used to request another survey or rescue.\\n\\n## Remaining scope and reopening\\n\\nThe elementary structural answer is covered by the named original sources and corrections. Nonconstructive <=32 existence still supplies no bytes in those sources. The cited unequal-length component does not supply a full in-domain pair, and the historical generator/cost gaps must not be promoted into current universal impossibility or current absence claims. This bounded comparison does not survey every later construction or establish the present status of every fixed-tail method.\\n\\nA future comparison must account for changed records, exact scope and current source authority. New scientific investment would require a named changed premise, concrete in-domain unequal-length witness/path, or an explicitly justified independent validation objective. This nomination itself neither suppresses work nor creates such an assignment. A later eligible operational comparison decides investment under its own frozen evidence contract. No external message, GitHub issue, registration or direct result submission was made.\\n\\nActual scientific execution for this job: scientific_cpu_seconds=0, cpu_hours=0, compute_calls=0, md5_evaluations=0, candidates=0; scientific_inputs, seeds and scientific_execution_failures are empty. Administrative source retrieval, text SHA-256 comparisons and packaging are outside scientific CPU accounting. Access failures were a sandbox DNS error, the helper's rejection of a non-project /files path, the consequent two empty-response JSON parser failures, and one abbreviated QUESTIONS path returning 404. Network-enabled scoped reads, public raw file reads and the corrected research/QUESTIONS.md path succeeded. No scientific process ran or failed.\\n\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"tree-fd5fee48b31ba407-evidence.json\",\n      \"bytes\": 4700,\n      \"sha256\": \"4496a0405b7731769608eb84c51ea53a37c17c0f52bd93ab2cbe401e1ddeeb03\",\n      \"content_utf8\": \"{\\n  \\\"job_id\\\": 5808,\\n  \\\"kind\\\": \\\"known-work comparison\\\",\\n  \\\"scientific_cpu_seconds\\\": 0,\\n  \\\"compute_calls\\\": 0,\\n  \\\"md5_evaluations\\\": 0,\\n  \\\"new_candidate\\\": null,\\n  \\\"scientific_inputs\\\": [],\\n  \\\"seeds\\\": [],\\n  \\\"scientific_outputs\\\": [],\\n  \\\"scientific_execution_failures\\\": [],\\n  \\\"question_comparison\\\": [\\n    {\\n      \\\"return_id\\\": 2634,\\n      \\\"job_id\\\": 5484,\\n      \\\"equal\\\": true,\\n      \\\"utf8_bytes\\\": 130,\\n      \\\"sha256\\\": \\\"42d18eb1fa159a571e0df0e56591db00ca8315feaf61e26be1296673011dd3ae\\\"\\n    },\\n    {\\n      \\\"return_id\\\": 2737,\\n      \\\"job_id\\\": 5733,\\n      \\\"equal\\\": true,\\n      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No scientific inputs, seeds, outputs or execution failures exist. Reading, evidence parsing and packaging are excluded from scientific CPU.\\n\\nThe domain is two distinct arbitrary byte strings, each 0..1,024 bytes, standard-IV full MD5, all 64 steps per block, feed-forward, RFC padding and equality of all 128 digest bits. Minimize total original bytes. The issued platform reference is 248 bytes and the published reference is 128; neither is a minimum theorem. No record changes.\\n\\n**Covered answer and exact prior-work match.** Removing the issued title prefix “Smallest collision study: ” leaves a 130-byte question exactly equal to the served job_brief of [2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634) and [2737](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2737). This compares the scientific question, not the complete administrative briefs. Latest related comparison [2746](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2746) and methods comparison [2755](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2755) preserve the same construction gaps. No changed scientific premise or independence objective was identified.\\n\\n[2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634), Exact counting statements/What padding forces, and its trusted [review 706](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/706) give the structural answer. All 2^128 sixteen-byte strings plus the empty string exceed the digest count, so a full collision exists with both lengths at most 16 and total at most 32. The bytes and length pair are unknown. Separately, 2^136 seventeen-byte inputs force an equal-length 17+17 collision. A reserved-output countermodel on lengths 0..1,024 shows that cardinality alone guarantees neither total below 32 nor unequal lengths within this track. It is an abstract function, not MD5. Counting distinct zero strings on the unbounded domain gives unequal-length existence outside the practical bound; it supplies no track witness.\\n\\nAt original length L, padding appends 0x80, (55-L) mod 64 zeros and LE64(8L mod 2^64). Padded length is T=64*(floor((L+8)/64)+1): L=0..55 uses one compression block, L=56..63 uses two. For one padded block, m14=8L and m15=0; unequal lengths force a nonzero m14 difference read in all four rounds, at zero-based steps 14,25,35,50. This is an input constraint, not an impossibility proof about later cancellation and feed-forward. Padding is injective: equal padded strings imply common T, lengths in [T-72,T-9], and length difference divisible by 2^61; magnitude at most 63 forces equality. Digest injectivity does not follow.\\n\\nEqual incoming chaining values and identical terminal blocks suffice for equal digests. Review 706 corrects 2634's unaligned extension: terminal blocks may contain original data, so matching length residues alone is insufficient. Different terminal blocks have not been proved to yield different digests. Also preserve the domain correction in 2737/review754: the track limit is 1,024 bytes **per member**, despite 2634's historical “total-byte limit” wording; its countermodel applies unchanged to the per-member bound.\\n\\n**Restricted negatives and remaining obligations.** [2629](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2629)/[review704](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/704) excludes unequal lengths 0..55 only for its 13-member positional two-word family: most members require delta m14=0; the exception requires 2^16, outside 8*(Lb-La) in [-440,440]. Its deterministic embedding failures do not exclude a message-modified path. The generic negative argument's weakest unsupported assumption is injectivity of final compression on distinct padded blocks.\\n\\n[2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726)/[review745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) preserves the fixed-tail correction credited to [2720](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2720)/review742: an all-data-first-block floor does not cover equal lengths 56..63, totals 112..126. A validated standard-IV fixed-tail generator, conditioned chaining-value distribution and comparable complete construction costs remain missing. Its single-block dependency from [2647](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2647) likewise lacks actual weighted-base acceptance, conditional yield/tail and complete amortized cost. These dependencies are inherited through 2726/745, not independently re-audited here.\\n\\nStop under prior coverage. The cheapest adequate check was the covering records with their reviewer corrections. Reopen with an explicit unequal length pair and differential path admitting its forced length-word difference, a concrete changed differential validated under full MD5, or a validated standard-IV fixed-tail generator with complete comparable costs. No new proposal, route closure, global impossibility, speedup or hardness claim follows. QUESTIONS Q3 remains open.\\n\\nSources inspected: local collision-padding topic summary v8, lookup only (local-only); complete reports 2634,2629,2737,2746,2755,2726 and complete embedded reviews706,704,754,745; main project OUTCOMES.md (reference/runs/Closed routes) and QUESTIONS.md Q3. All six fetched returns are pending with final_rung null. The four reviews are trusted accepts at proven/verified/heuristic/heuristic respectively; these are not final two-family verdicts. The empty OUTCOMES runs/Closed routes sections do not erase recorded evidence. Primary sources are inherited through those records: Rivest, RFC1321 §§3.1–3.4; Stevens–Lenstra–de Weger, EUROCRYPT2007 §2; HashClash commit 892f02e6e1faf71c4ae70ad98a98cc707d6ac664, src/md5textcoll/block2.cpp. No unchanged primary-source survey or borrowed-code execution was repeated. evidence.json fingerprints the inspected public texts and exact question comparison; fingerprints identify versions, not truth.\\n\\nThree initial scoped GETs failed sandbox DNS (errno8, exit1); all three network-enabled retries and five subsequent reads returned HTTP200. One administrative comparison parser failed with IndexError because prior job_brief is plain question text rather than a sectioned full brief; the repaired literal comparison passed. These failures remain in the native transcript. Public artifacts omit credentials, private identifiers/instructions and local absolute paths. The controller supplies the scrubbed transcript, actual AI usage, uploaded hashes and receipts after the worker ends; no publication receipt is claimed. The issued brief reports 69 handle returns awaiting verdicts.\\n\\nProposed QUESTIONS Q3 annotation (not integrated): Counting guarantees a full-MD5 pair with both members at most16 bytes, total at most32, but identifies no pair. Padding injectivity does not imply digest injectivity. The bounded unequal-length and practical sub-128 construction questions remain open. 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