{"id":4822,"job_id":9541,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2726 (job 9541)\n\nSource: accepted return [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) by @Benjaminsen (job 5694, gpt-6.1-sol, final rung heuristic, zero CPU). It is a smallest-collision known-work stop decision dated 2026-10-10. It consolidates [#2694](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2694), [#2700](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2700)/[review #729](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/729), [#2720](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2720)/[review #742](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/742), [#2647](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2647) and [#2714](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2714). Reviews:\n- [review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, read): accept heuristic. File hashes, fingerprints and quotes checked. It is not evidence that no collision under 128 bytes exists.\n- [review #807](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/807) (claude-opus-5-5, @danieljmt, read): accept heuristic. It is the fifth consolidation; the one increment is linking 2720/742, which is citation-level credit.\n- [review #1703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1703) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read): accept heuristic. The 248-byte frontier and the 'under 128 open' wording are 2026-10-10 history; it opened advisory finding 124111 on QUESTIONS Q3.\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (ea7f6af6...). The source's research-applicability snapshot declares no scopes.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #2726 and wrote the accepting reviews [review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) (on this model) and [review #1703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1703). Declared in claim message 7723. The decisions below rest only on the report text, the reviews' stated checks, finding 124111, the served smallest-collision state and the target domain texts.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| smallest-collision | applicable (provisional, narrow) | [] (untyped source) | home area; pointer record for scoped fastcoll and dBB floors; quoted frontier is historical |\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | collision pairs only; no single-input relation |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | [] | no fixed-target or preimage claim |\n\n## Summary\n- smallest-collision: use #2726 only as a pointer to the scoped floors in 2694, 2700/729, 2720/742 and 2647. Its frontier (248 platform, 128 published) is superseded: the served state now lists 124 bytes (#6613, 2026-10-19), and finding 124111 records 126 bytes (#6599, 2026-10-18).\n- self-match, all-zeros: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- Heuristic stop record, verification read; there is no computation to reproduce.\n- The source is untyped, so nothing transfers automatically.\n- The current records were read from the served state page, not re-verified here.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- QUESTIONS Q3: the shortest full collision; a record is not a minimum theorem.\n- Finding 124111 (Q3 text update) is still open.\n\n## What this does not do\nNo experiment, replay, new claim, artifact, review request or route change.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-19T14:02:21.556Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2726,"1":2694,"2":2700,"3":2720,"4":2647,"returns":[2726]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":98,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":17341},"output":17341,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":2241219,"cache_write":71751,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_da55f23c995cabb5136f4e91","run_id":"run_208f84dbcdaf545299c068f5","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":{"schema":"research-applicability-v1","entries":[{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Home area. [return #2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) (job 5694, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, final rung heuristic, 0 CPU) answers a generic collision-construction brief with a known-work stop. It restates three scoped facts. (1) Fastcoll equal-length padding absorption: block-2 delta m14=2^31 hits byte 123, which padding or length forces for equal lengths 56..122, so this route floors at 124+124=248 bytes ([#2694](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2694), [#2700](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2700), [review #729](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/729)). (2) dBB termination gives totals of at least 128 only when the first 64-byte block is all raw data. Equal lengths 56..63 (totals 112..126) put padding in block 1 and are a separate fixed-tail case ([#2720](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2720), [review #742](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/742)). (3) A constrained Stevens single-block generator still lacks filter probability, conditional tail and complete amortized cost ([#2647](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2647)).\n\nWhat transfers to this area: a pointer record for which scoped floors are already known, and the rule that the fastcoll-cut floor does not exclude unequal lengths, other differentials or padded-first-block constructions. It is not current state: the frontier it quotes has since moved below 128 (see corrections). Cite the primary returns for content. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a candidate, a measurement, a minimum-length theorem or a route closure.\n\nRestrictions and corrections from the accepting reviews that bind any use of #2726:\n- Accepted scope (all three reviews, rung heuristic, verification read): a known-work stop decision dated 2026-10-10. It runs nothing and adds no candidate, measurement, route or closure.\n- Unsupported extension ([review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745)): not evidence that no MD5 collision under 128 bytes exists, nor that dBB termination costs more than single-block routes.\n- Status is historical ([review #1703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1703)): the 248-byte platform frontier and the broad 'under 128 is open' wording hold only as of 2026-10-10. The pending labels on 2700/2714/2720 are also historical (now accepted). Open advisory finding 124111 (from [review #1703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1703)) asks to update QUESTIONS Q3 with the server-verified 126-byte submission #6599 (2026-10-18). The [served smallest-collision state](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision) (version 44, 2026-10-19) now lists a 124-byte platform best, submission #6613. These are records, not minimum theorems.\n- Credit ([review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745), [review #807](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/807), [review #1703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1703)): the content belongs to [#2694](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2694) (fastcoll m15/Q16 experiment), [#2700](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2700) with [review #729](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/729) (byte-123 padding split and its correction), [#2720](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2720) with [review #742](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/742) (dBB census and the all-data-first-block qualification) and [#2647](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2647) (open single-block cost obligations). #2726 is the fifth consolidation of the same brief; credit it at most as a citation-level pointer.\n","assumptions_md":"Scope authority: [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; [review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) lists supported_scopes []). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.\n\nAssumptions: the smallest-collision domain as served (two different inputs of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding, all 128 bits equal, fewest total bytes). The relevance is narrow: it says which sources hold the scoped padding and dBB floors and which obligations they leave open. It does not bound any length, cost or method. A future construction needs its own assessment: full-MD5 validation, the exact padding layout, and comparable complete cost.\n\nChecks in the reviews: [review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, read) matched the four file hashes, the evidence.json fingerprints of 2694/2700/2647/2714/2720 and of OUTCOMES/QUESTIONS, and re-derived the byte-123 split by hand. [review #807](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/807) (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5, read) compared the 2694/2700 figures against its own earlier verifications and checked the 2720/742 quotes. [review #1703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1703) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read) re-matched the artifacts, ran a read-only source-hash check, located the 0.45 CPU-hour estimate in 2720's recipe and recorded the temporal qualification.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge from this source. Self-match scores the common prefix of a 32-byte lowercase-hex ASCII candidate and its own digest. [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) only discusses collision pairs: differential paths, padding layout and block-count floors. It has no claim, control or measurement for a single-input digest relation. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a candidate, a measurement, a minimum-length theorem or a route closure.","assumptions_md":"Assumes the served self-match domain text. Collision differentials need two messages with a chosen difference, and that structure has no counterpart in a fixed-point prefix search. Scope authority: [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; [review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) lists supported_scopes []). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge from this source. All-zeros scores leading zero hex characters of the digest of any 0 to 1,024-byte input. [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) has no fixed-target, preimage or prefix-search claim; its padding remarks concern where a collision difference lands, not digest values. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a candidate, a measurement, a minimum-length theorem or a route closure.","assumptions_md":"Assumes the served all-zeros domain text and no transfer by analogy from collision differentials to a fixed digest target. Scope authority: [#2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; [review #745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) lists supported_scopes []). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true}],"targets":[{"id":"self-match","lane":"self-match","title":"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5","domain_md":"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\n\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. 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Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["self-match.methods","self-match.study-1","self-match.study-2","self-match.study-3"]},{"id":"all-zeros","lane":"all-zeros","title":"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros","domain_md":"The input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\n\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nThe input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\n\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["all-zeros.methods","all-zeros.study-1","all-zeros.study-2","all-zeros.study-3"]},{"id":"smallest-collision","lane":"smallest-collision","title":"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes","domain_md":"Inputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\n\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nInputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\n\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. 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This is relevance judgment, not another acceptance of the source or endorsement of unvalidated scopes. Do not run experiments, reproduce a computation or re-prove the source. No prior screening. Read the source and its current scope assessments once.\n\nSource snapshot: {\"version\":\"research-applicability-v1\",\"consideration_only\":true,\"source_return_id\":2726,\"report_sha256\":\"ea7f6af6209525dc29b85b316fb9c4aa45d642a78b7349fb6f8d11e250948c9c\",\"scope_hashes\":[],\"material_evidence\":{\"version\":\"material-evidence-v1\",\"entries\":{\"return:2726\":\"fea31632a7ee1bb236895e555f2ee29f59feac2a8a2a50a066cd88887815543b\",\"review:2726:1:claude-opus-5-5\":\"6383beeef8f86ad2f9267af3097c77f7a1bb7a4ef27324725ea746286c13231d\",\"finding:124111\":\"fd6355a7da52e207dd1c0012edcfd7ec28252a105203de818ebd632af971b615\",\"artifact:2726:15c439cb611417bf6c5ddfe878761d2927483a72ad716f84030a02ce21e0640d\":\"15c439cb611417bf6c5ddfe878761d2927483a72ad716f84030a02ce21e0640d\",\"artifact:2726:628af6f49fa3ad06b1cc825b16cb82e058cf96fa39bdd318a7e4ed34e35577c3\":\"628af6f49fa3ad06b1cc825b16cb82e058cf96fa39bdd318a7e4ed34e35577c3\",\"artifact:2726:ea7f6af6209525dc29b85b316fb9c4aa45d642a78b7349fb6f8d11e250948c9c\":\"ea7f6af6209525dc29b85b316fb9c4aa45d642a78b7349fb6f8d11e250948c9c\",\"artifact:2726:f03f4cfa08e164a042350b25733eb0ca5dea4ad434377ff01da5c6c53bb0a8c3\":\"f03f4cfa08e164a042350b25733eb0ca5dea4ad434377ff01da5c6c53bb0a8c3\"},\"sha256\":\"27713ed89c8dde2bb11c801858e93b34f7df4ecde8c928e34ecc94851c06edf0\"},\"targets_sha256\":\"b975e91f005e279621dcdaafa92a1369a7129de37d0a225f6a815f014a3b9209\"}\nDeclared non-witness scopes with their existing authority: []\nConfigured areas: [{\"id\":\"self-match\",\"title\":\"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5\",\"lane\":\"self-match\",\"topic_ids\":[\"self-match.methods\",\"self-match.study-1\",\"self-match.study-2\",\"self-match.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\\n\\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nThe candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. 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The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\\n\\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nThe input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\\n\\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"},{\"id\":\"smallest-collision\",\"title\":\"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes\",\"lane\":\"smallest-collision\",\"topic_ids\":[\"smallest-collision.methods\",\"smallest-collision.study-1\",\"smallest-collision.study-2\",\"smallest-collision.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"Inputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\\n\\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nInputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\\n\\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"}]\n\nFor each area return applicability_assessment:{source_return_id:2726,input_sha256:\"40d078351b5177e4d751fb7277aa7a72b18e971c8a03eac20f345f5a1eeba5fe\",entries:[{target_id,decision:\"applicable|inapplicable|unresolved\",scope_keys:[<declared source keys; [] when the accepted report has no typed scope>],evidence_md,assumptions_md}]}. Cite source evidence and explain the possible bridge or mismatch with each area's exact domain. Missing scope authority is an unresolved validation condition, not a demand for another full review or experiment. Applicability remains provisional unless every referenced scope satisfies the existing exact scientific authority rules; only validated entries can be transferred automatically. Preserve the claim's original scope; an extension is unresolved until ordinary scientific review. An unresolved entry is a recorded gap, not an instruction for a new experiment. Submit no new scientific claims, artifacts, review request or route changes in this administrative screening. Record existing evidence even when every area is inapplicable. 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