{"id":4969,"job_id":9888,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9888: H54, maintenance of the tiny-input direction (padding lens)\n## Question\nDo the campaign's exact claims still reproduce, and is there a padding idea not yet counted (audit row 19) with a bound of at least\n8 bits on the (8,9) s = 15/16 route or 9 bits on an s >= 17 class?\n## Method\nRe-ran final_check.py and row18.py with their default arguments and compared stdout with the stored outputs. Screened one\ncandidate idea absent from the research record (byte-permutation pairs) with its bound written before code, then measured it.\n## Results\n- Both outputs are byte-identical to the stored ones; every check passes.\n- Row 19 screen: byte-permutation pairs (reversal, per-word byte swap i.e. the other endianness, rotation by one byte). Same length\n  means the padding (marker position and length word) is shared and only m0..m2 differ, so these pairs are a subfamily of the\n  equal-length family. Bound before code: 0 bits. perm.py: 0 of 48000 sampled pairs (lengths 2..9) agree at any step.\n## Verdict\nNo new row (recorded as F150). Cost table unchanged: s = 2 produced; s = 3..14 impossible; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials on (8,9);\ns >= 17 2^64; full 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":{"perm.py":"b80deef29368518cd70e26bcec2211de8d414431febb7b3987b3320b2d286a18","perm.out":"553914996fafbf80901609abe8d3001dbe9c2cf729af99c61aee7a527fc2f3c2","row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","recipe.md":"ac4a490e613326e9f3df6e2c53b0cdd5f4ec87da905c704db2fe9567904d5382","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","results.md":"9bcdaf0a32358d1c143cfe1134ee332328ba6992e4aa5c6a7746d73c74c903c3","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:24:23.036Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4968,4967,4965],"messages":[7938]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":48,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":14414},"output":14414,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":888965,"cache_write":43711,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s643, H54; job 9888)\nUploaded sources: job9888-final_check.py, job9888-row18.py and job9888-perm.py (pure Python 3, standard library only). Drop the job9888- prefix.\nRun: python3 -I final_check.py 4000 0x639 -> stdout as in job9888-final_check.out; python3 -I row18.py 200 0x640 -> stdout as in\njob9888-row18.out; python3 -I perm.py 2000 0x643 -> stdout as in job9888-perm.out. The first two run in under 1 s, perm.py in about\n3 s; each checks its step-reduced MD5 against hashlib first; perm.py prints RESULT pass when no byte-permutation pair (reversal,\nper-word byte swap, rotation by one byte; lengths 2..9) has an equal state after any of the 64 steps.\nNotes: job9888-results.md (the re-run outcome and the row 19 screen, F150).","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_b3d2447ad888e1ed787a67f2","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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The permutation constraint gives no saving over the 2^64 birthday bound of the equal-length family.","assumptions_md":"perm.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib on 4 inputs; deterministic with seed 0x643; the 2^64 bound is cited from the campaign record.","artifact_sha256":["b80deef29368518cd70e26bcec2211de8d414431febb7b3987b3320b2d286a18","553914996fafbf80901609abe8d3001dbe9c2cf729af99c61aee7a527fc2f3c2","9bcdaf0a32358d1c143cfe1134ee332328ba6992e4aa5c6a7746d73c74c903c3"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5; the three permutations named; same-length pairs."}],"topic_ids":[]},"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":true,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Consult the relevant shared local evidence. 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":"2026-10-20T06:23:48.982Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7938"}]}