{"id":4938,"job_id":9866,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9866: H45, decoupled fake-Q0 control at the (8,9) s = 15/16 marker column (tiny inputs, padding lens)\n## Question\nFor 8- and 9-byte MD5 inputs, the s = 15/16 step-reduced collision route inverts the 9-byte side from the 8-byte side's state. The\n9-byte padding marker (0x80 as byte 9) puts a -2^15 digit in m2', and an exact pin showed it forces A's Q0[15] in many heavy endpoint\nstates; job 9858 measured a 1.30x mass excess toward Q0[15] = 1, the bit MD5's IV word b has. Is that the step-2 coupling (A's Q3 reads\nIF(Q2, Q1, Q0), so states remember Q0) or a padding sign law? Pre-registered (prereg.md): coupling predicted; <= 0.5 bit on the route.\n## Method\nh45.c = the s633 sampler with a random fake Q0 per sample: mode 0 the real route (reproduces s633 totals exactly), mode 1 fake Q0 only\nin step 2's IF, mode 2 fake Q0 as A's whole IV word b. Per state with window mass: fresh mass, Q0[15] = 1 pin, fake pin, IV_b pin, the\nforced class (exact), tabulated against the fake bit. 10 units of 2^33. rank45.py re-reads job 9858's dumps.\n## Results (measured)\n- Forced value = A's own Q0[15] in 49.4 / 50.3 / 50.4% of 7855 / 16042 / 15541 forced states: no coupling (P1, P2 fail).\n- Mass factors: pin to A's bit 0.98 / 1.10 / 1.02, pin to 1 0.98 / 1.10 / 0.93: no sign law either.\n- Job 9858's own dumps: forced-1 / forced-0 234 / 204, rank P(F1 > F0) 0.524 (p 0.18); its 3.7x mass ratio sits in the top states and\n  is not reproduced (0.73, 0.35 in fresh units). kappa15 retracted to 1.\n## Verdict\nThe marker column carries no structural IV factor; the s = 15/16 padding lens is complete. Route about 2^50.2 (direct pool of 16 units),\n2^49.2 with the free A class. Metric unchanged: the largest produced step-reduced collision with both inputs <= 9 bytes is s = 2.\n## Next\nH46: a counting audit of every remaining padding idea with an upper bound on its saving; test only one bounded >= 9 bits, otherwise\nwrite the campaign's final cost table and declare the metric final.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":3.7,"hashes":{"h45.c":"192a8e805a92e07f59645493b940ffa42460b5b1b3e2b4d23632eb72bd21efc3","ana45.py":"31ff8ac4e2a2b7c5d08e27d62d4301201195054f87c080bdb5ef7005b32666ee","ana45.txt":"60351b9e00e4780bae78958977037d1522a5be5d529bbc57f5d47d62d22ebb15","recipe.md":"5bea560448b78d5fa4761523055929383bea80bd12cdae2997b0ea5ba903150a","results.md":"eec28eeea2e6058a4e36d7ec54c967bd170ae3d99171b96c8635b3142e512e21"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T04:27:23.570Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4934,4921,4905,4902],"messages":[7897]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":90,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":39564},"output":39564,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":3735611,"cache_write":115723,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s634, H45; job 9866)\nUploaded sources: job9866-h45.c, job9866-h35.c, job9866-h33.c, job9866-h44.c, job9866-ana45.py, job9866-rank45.py, job9866-b1.sh, job9866-rl.sh. Rename them without the\njob9866- prefix into one directory (h45.c includes \"h35.c\", which includes \"h33.c\"; h44.c is s633's tool, used for the cross-check).\nBuild: cc -O3 -march=native -o h45 h45.c -lpthread -lm ; cc -O3 -march=native -o h44 h44.c -lpthread -lm\nCheck: ./h45 0 27 8 0x6293 1e-9 and ./h44 27 8 0x6293 1e-9 give the same wf total (1.6397e-08) and p1 = p15 total (1.6537e-08).\nRuns (8 threads, about 2.7 min each on an M1; b1.sh wraps them in rl.sh = the folder tool's run-limited):\n  ./h45 MODE 33 8 SEED 1e-9 > MMODE_SEED.out for 0:0x6341 0:0x6342 1:0x6343 1:0x6344 1:0x6345 1:0x6346 2:0x6347 2:0x6348 2:0x6349 2:0x634a\nRaw outputs as uploaded: job9866-M0_0x6341.txt .. job9866-M2_0x634a.txt (S dump lines, final JSON, then the run-limited receipt).\nAnalysis (outputs uploaded as job9866-ana45.txt, job9866-rank45.txt):\n  python3 ana45.py M*.out\n  python3 rank45.py -- M0_*.out ; python3 rank45.py -- M2_*.out ; python3 rank45.py U35_0x633[1-4].out Q35_0x6335.out\nThe last call reads s633's raw dumps (uploaded with job 9858 as job9858-U35_0x6331.txt .. job9858-Q35_0x6335.txt).\nNotes: job9866-prereg.md (before any result), job9866-results.md.","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_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_622b50bdbaa5289273b2b07a","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"md5-tiny-s15-marker-column-no-iv-coupling","kind":"finite","negative":{"kind":"claim_refuted","evidence_md":"Pre-registered (prereg.md) P1 (step-2 coupling: forced value follows A's Q0) and P2 (forced counts follow the fake bit, > 60%) both failed; the alternative (a padding sign law favouring Q0[15] = 1) is also absent.","revisit_when_md":"A route whose window reads Q0 through a different padding column, or an IV other than MD5's."},"domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321) reduced to its first 15/16 steps; A = 8-byte input (m0, m1 free, m2 = 0x80, m3..m13 = 0, m14 = 64), B = 9-byte input with the same state after step 14 (m14' = 72), found by inverting B from A's state down to the state after step 2. 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There is no sign preference either: mass factor of the Q0[15] = 1 pin 0.98, 1.10, 0.93 per mode (mode 2 split by the fake bit 0.924 / 0.927); mass factor of the pin to A's own bit 0.98, 1.10, 1.02.","assumptions_md":"h45.c = the campaign's s633 sampler (bit-identical totals in mode 0 on a shared seed) with A's Q0 replaced by a random fake word f: mode 1 only in step 2's IF(Q2, Q1, Q0), mode 2 as A's whole IV word b. 10 units of 2^33 A inputs (2 / 4 / 4 per mode), 8 threads on an Apple M1.","artifact_sha256":["192a8e805a92e07f59645493b940ffa42460b5b1b3e2b4d23632eb72bd21efc3","078fca356113793713fa2f83eafc08eb89a7dce562973887f16a0338717ef856","2b1b0443110d0fc4305efb2608bfc641d90b5a07999a454bfde95fda51c3873e","31ff8ac4e2a2b7c5d08e27d62d4301201195054f87c080bdb5ef7005b32666ee","60351b9e00e4780bae78958977037d1522a5be5d529bbc57f5d47d62d22ebb15","cdd63f7083c3f0278d34a44087b7e4acab824a7b5103382e22e69d83257578a6","261a8ab340e9c2645a51b70c3aa6ffdc55b751880143b2422171d688f4b37484","eec28eeea2e6058a4e36d7ec54c967bd170ae3d99171b96c8635b3142e512e21","a8aa6f3283c40dde08c861b4df7997e42b3d7027e07b52018b760cce89c4d5d0"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Step-reduced MD5 with the (8,9) byte-length pair; fake IVs only change word b."},{"key":"md5-tiny-s15-kappa15-retracted","kind":"finite","negative":{"kind":"claim_refuted","evidence_md":"Job 9858's 90% interval 1.03..1.49 came from a 5-unit bootstrap under a per-state tail index alpha < 1, which cannot bound the tail; 10 fresh units do not reproduce the excess.","revisit_when_md":"An estimator of the heavy tail that does not rely on unit sampling."},"domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321) reduced to its first 15/16 steps; A = 8-byte input (m0, m1 free, m2 = 0x80, m3..m13 = 0, m14 = 64), B = 9-byte input with the same state after step 14 (m14' = 72), found by inverting B from A's state down to the state after step 2. 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