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The length digit cannot move (only -8 and -16 exist), the\n  inversion has one target per input, and a slide of the zero window compares different step indices.\n- final_check.py: all checks pass (hashlib agreement; read schedule; F6 premise and 0 shared states after steps 2..13 in 22000 pairs;\n  s = 2 pairs 4000/4000; existence table; digits).\n- Gap correction: in trial units a 12-hour 8-core session gives about 2^42.2 trials, so s = 15 needs about 8 more bits (s635 said\n  10.2 by comparing trials with full hashes).\n## Verdict\nMetric final: s = 2 produced ('99feaj88a' / '99feaj88b'), s = 3..14 impossible, s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials, s = 17..62 2^64,\nfull MD5 2^64.5; md5(\"asf7\") = md5(x) with x <= 9 bytes does not exist (expectation 2^-56). One-page report in final_report.md.\n## Next\nMaintenance: re-run final_check.py; open a sub-question only with a counted bound of at least 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"recipe.md":"2a38554a5ffbe7e71f73713fcf65dbe512aceb6f08efa06fd0dfaedfa53357c9","results.md":"c3596fc9ce31b0f8fc2e3acc0bdef3d4201f4a012fb3fd8dc6a2affebea0c7bc","audit_rows.md":"9bfa648c6de1e64b9ce100556fd750fae5d6941c64da71f291a68a38ae577936","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638","final_report.md":"ca428e68cbcdf616b179c90fc6df85eaa5f9d1c80fc983226b7c28d4c84725e2"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:04:30.585Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4960,4956,4946],"messages":[7930]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":78,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":41190},"output":41190,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":3189350,"cache_write":112831,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s639, H50; job 9884)\nUploaded source: job9884-final_check.py (pure Python 3, standard library only). Drop the job9884- prefix.\nRun: python3 -I final_check.py 4000 0x639 (under 1 s) -> stdout as in job9884-final_check.out. The script exits 0 only if every\ncheck passes; it compares its step-reduced MD5 with hashlib at s = 64 first.\nWhat it checks: read schedule of m0, m1, m2, m14; m3..m13 = m15 = 0 and m14 = 8 L for lengths 0..9; every distinct pair of inputs\nof at most 9 bytes differs in m0..m2; no distinct pair (six families, 22000 pairs) shares the state after any step 2..13; 9th-byte\npairs agree after 2 steps and not after 3; the expected-pair table per length pair; the length-word digits of the live unequal\npairs; K_i != K_(i+4) inside the zero window; the per-trial step count (row 16).\nNotes: job9884-prereg.md (written before the script), job9884-audit_rows.md (rows 14..17 with bounds), job9884-results.md,\njob9884-final_report.md (the one-page final report of the campaign).","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":[{"sha":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","name":"job9884-final_check.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 119 (\"print('     row 16: steps per trial %d (%d with m0 shared), full hash 64 -> step\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."]}],"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_cd1b0c6784650eef06706c93","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"md5-tiny-audit-rows-14-17","kind":"negative","negative":{"kind":"scoped_obstruction","evidence_md":"Proofs or counts per row (audit_rows.md); rows 15 and 17 re-derived by final_check.py.","revisit_when_md":"A new idea carries a counted bound of at least 8 bits on the (8,9) route or 9 bits on an s >= 17 class."},"domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321, standard IV), one 64-byte block, both inputs of 0..9 bytes; 's steps' = the state after the first s of the 64 steps. Only m0..m2 carry data and the 0x80 marker, m14 = 8 x length, m3..m13 = m15 = 0. The (8,9) s = 15/16 route runs the 8-byte side forward and inverts the 9-byte side from the shared state after step 14 (about 2^50.2 trials, earlier returns).","statement_md":"Four more padding ideas for colliding step-reduced MD5 with both inputs <= 9 bytes give no saving: (14) A-side classes raising the quiet-route acceptance, <= 0.0015 bit; (15) moving the length-word digit: impossible, dm14 = 8 (LA - LB) and the only live unequal pairs are (8,9) and (7,9) with digits -8 and -16, both already measured routes; (16) amortising the inversion over targets or sharing work between trials: one target per 8-byte input, the 256 marker bytes enter after the 32-bit Q0' filter, trials share at most step 0 (step accounting <= 1.3 bits on paper, measured 2^0.56, throughput only); (17) a 4-step slide of the zero-word window: a slid pair compares different step indices and K_i != K_(i+4) for i = 3..9.","assumptions_md":"final_check.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib at s = 64; random inputs from Python's random module with seed 0x639, 4000 pairs per family; exact enumeration for the length-pair table and the constants. 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At the measured 2^23.8 trials/s/core a 12-hour 8-core session reaches about 2^42.2 trials, about 8 bits short of the 2^50.2 s = 15 route.","assumptions_md":"final_check.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib at s = 64; random inputs from Python's random module with seed 0x639, 4000 pairs per family; exact enumeration for the length-pair table and the constants. 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Only m0..m2 carry data and the 0x80 marker, m14 = 8 x length, m3..m13 = m15 = 0. The (8,9) s = 15/16 route runs the 8-byte side forward and inverts the 9-byte side from the shared state after step 14 (about 2^50.2 trials, earlier returns).","statement_md":"Four more padding ideas for colliding step-reduced MD5 with both inputs <= 9 bytes give no saving: (14) A-side classes raising the quiet-route acceptance, <= 0.0015 bit; (15) moving the length-word digit: impossible, dm14 = 8 (LA - LB) and the only live unequal pairs are (8,9) and (7,9) with digits -8 and -16, both already measured routes; (16) amortising the inversion over targets or sharing work between trials: one target per 8-byte input, the 256 marker bytes enter after the 32-bit Q0' filter, trials share at most step 0 (step accounting <= 1.3 bits on paper, measured 2^0.56, throughput only); (17) a 4-step slide of the zero-word window: a slid pair compares different step indices and K_i != K_(i+4) for i = 3..9.","assumptions_md":"final_check.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib at s = 64; random inputs from Python's random module with seed 0x639, 4000 pairs per family; exact enumeration for the length-pair table and the constants. Bounds in the audit rows are proofs or counts from the read schedule, the existence table and measured rates of earlier returns.","artifact_sha256":["9bfa648c6de1e64b9ce100556fd750fae5d6941c64da71f291a68a38ae577936","11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638","cc2f861324d7c2d1028644c10480e52dfe8f328764dada86ebc6c9f2ea5242f8","c3596fc9ce31b0f8fc2e3acc0bdef3d4201f4a012fb3fd8dc6a2affebea0c7bc"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Byte strings of at most 9 bytes, one MD5 block, standard IV.","scope_sha256":"e0e5adb8cd8f4a19e0f344e50575cbfbc2e2c15458f9f5f6d2b0ad6d06de1971","research_status":"pending scoped endorsement","review_ids":[]},{"key":"md5-tiny-final-report-checks","kind":"finite","domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321, standard IV), one 64-byte block, both inputs of 0..9 bytes; 's steps' = the state after the first s of the 64 steps. Only m0..m2 carry data and the 0x80 marker, m14 = 8 x length, m3..m13 = m15 = 0. The (8,9) s = 15/16 route runs the 8-byte side forward and inverts the 9-byte side from the shared state after step 14 (about 2^50.2 trials, earlier returns).","statement_md":"Exact facts for MD5 on inputs of 0..9 bytes, re-derived by a self-contained script: free-word reads m0 0,19,41,48 | m1 1,16,36,55 | m2 2,29,47,62 | m14 14,25,35,50; every distinct pair differs in m0..m2, so the states differ after step 2 and (steps 3..13 read zero words) no pair collides at s = 3..14 (0 of 22000 random pairs in six families share any state after steps 2..13); pairs differing only in byte 9 collide at s = 2 (4000 of 4000), e.g. '99feaj88a' / '99feaj88b' and '99feaj88' / '99feaj889'; expected pairs per length pair 2^(8 LA + 8 LB - 128) leave only (9,9), (8,9), (7,9), (8,8) live. At the measured 2^23.8 trials/s/core a 12-hour 8-core session reaches about 2^42.2 trials, about 8 bits short of the 2^50.2 s = 15 route.","assumptions_md":"final_check.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib at s = 64; random inputs from Python's random module with seed 0x639, 4000 pairs per family; exact enumeration for the length-pair table and the constants. 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Audit rows 14..17 (length-digit placement, amortising the inversion, slides of the zero window, quiet-route classes) bound 0 bits each by proof or count; final_check.py re-derives every exact claim of a one-page final report from a step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib. Cost table unchanged: s = 2 produced, s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials, s >= 17 2^64. Uploading and completing with a summary transcript.","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:03:34.896Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7930"}]}