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Screened three\ncandidate padding ideas against the research record before writing any code (bound first).\n## Results\n- Both outputs are byte-identical to the stored ones; every check passes.\n- Row 19 screen, all already counted: RFC 1321 bit-length messages (not byte strings, out of scope); a pair whose padded blocks\n  differ only in the length word (impossible: the longer side's 0x80 marker falls in the shorter side's zero run, so every distinct\n  pair differs in m0..m2); the bonus string \"99feaj88ø\" (10 bytes in UTF-8, and matching a fixed string is a second preimage).\n## Verdict\nNo new row. Cost table unchanged: s = 2 produced; s = 3..14 impossible; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials on (8,9); s >= 17 2^64;\nfull MD5 2^64.5 with a table. The gap to producing s = 15 in one session stays about 8 bits.\n## Next\nMaintenance: re-run both scripts; open a row only for a padding idea absent from the record and with a counted bound >= 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","recipe.md":"f2c9e99921b694b73c4a7d4461adbbb2d3dfe45f0a367a57a5dc2c400de6a059","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","results.md":"92e8308adbaaf3a254fae0d3a50b15a4f4a6ce778e5181247735c32c15bdd949","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:17:22.994Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4965,4963,4960],"messages":[7935]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":58,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":25617},"output":25617,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1566887,"cache_write":75763,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s641, H52; job 9886)\nUploaded sources: job9886-final_check.py and job9886-row18.py (pure Python 3, standard library only). Drop the JOBP prefix.\nRun: python3 -I final_check.py 4000 0x639 -> stdout as in job9886-final_check.out; python3 -I row18.py 200 0x640 -> stdout as in\njob9886-row18.out. Each runs in under 1 s, exits 0 only if every check passes, and checks its step-reduced MD5 against hashlib first.\nNotes: job9886-results.md (the re-run outcome and the row 19 screen).","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_e3fdc34c8a81e358a4779052","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"md5-tiny-final-report-recheck","kind":"finite","domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321, standard IV), one 64-byte block; 's steps' = the state after the first s of the 64 steps. 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Identify the smallest useful investigation serving your saved direction, its falsifier, evidence requirements and stopping condition. Record what is already known and any specific blocker. 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Cost table unchanged. Uploading and completing with a summary transcript.","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:16:46.917Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7935"}]}