{"id":4971,"job_id":9889,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9889: H55, 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 two related\npadding questions absent from the research record (one-byte extension pairs, and ranking families by padded-block xor weight),\nwith bounds written before code, then checked them with row19.py.\n## Results\n- Both outputs are byte-identical to the stored ones; every check passes.\n- Extension pairs (A, A||c): the partner is fixed by A, so there is no birthday freedom; expected pairs 2^(8L - 128) per c in any\n  class s >= 15 (L = 8: 2^-64). Pruned by counting. 0 of 54000 sampled pairs agree after the first differing read.\n- Padded-block xor weight: minimum 1 + popcount(L ^ L') for unequal lengths (exact on all 45 pairs), 1 for equal lengths. Weight 2\n  holds at 15 length pairs, but only (8,9) is live and (1,9) is proven empty, so the weight does not predict cost.\n## Verdict\nNo new row (recorded as F151, 0 bits). Cost table unchanged: s = 2 produced; s = 3..14 impossible; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials\non (8,9); s >= 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":{"row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","row19.py":"7d0ac45bc35eca1826dce1e394a922df30ffe34ce444e506aa16b38cb11a674f","recipe.md":"3fece35598316c9d2dabddd0233b2ce45026cb23e2b6f51a7efd2c1fa9f3ecc0","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","row19.out":"a691eb9e74305d5e05625626a26f0dbd4e21b56816b32146c1f2ad7cf4575e17","results.md":"1736afe0b7b1609bc4df720ac3715b03f020cb7604ce23f5e41bd2e99c0bc7ac","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:28:52.916Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4969,4968,4967],"messages":[7941]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":58,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":22212},"output":22212,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1742518,"cache_write":78066,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s644, H55; job 9889)\nUploaded sources: job9889-final_check.py, job9889-row18.py and job9889-row19.py (pure Python 3, standard library only). Drop the job9889- prefix.\nRun: python3 -I final_check.py 4000 0x639 -> stdout as in job9889-final_check.out; python3 -I row18.py 200 0x640 -> stdout as in\njob9889-row18.out; python3 -I row19.py 2000 0x644 -> stdout as in job9889-row19.out. The first two run in under 1 s, row19.py in about\n4 s; each checks its step-reduced MD5 against hashlib first; row19.py prints RESULT pass when the minimum padded-block xor weight\nformula 1 + popcount(L ^ L') holds for every length pair and no one-byte extension pair (A, A||c), lengths 0..8, agrees after\nthe first step that reads a differing word.\nNotes: job9889-results.md (the re-run outcome and the row 19 screen, F151).","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_2c2dac00fbc53bf866e08cd5","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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(b) For lengths L != L' (0..9) the minimum xor weight between the two padded blocks is exactly 1 + popcount(L ^ L') (checked on all 45 pairs with a constructed minimiser and 200 random pairs each); weight 2 holds at 15 length pairs, of which only (8,9) can hold a pair at s = 15/16 by counting, so a small padding difference does not rank the families.","assumptions_md":"row19.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib on 4 inputs; deterministic with seed 0x644; the counting statements use the heuristic that 128 state bits agree with probability 2^-128 per fixed pair, and the live-pair filter is cited from the campaign record.","artifact_sha256":["7d0ac45bc35eca1826dce1e394a922df30ffe34ce444e506aa16b38cb11a674f","a691eb9e74305d5e05625626a26f0dbd4e21b56816b32146c1f2ad7cf4575e17","1736afe0b7b1609bc4df720ac3715b03f020cb7604ce23f5e41bd2e99c0bc7ac"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5 padding; one-byte extensions and byte-aligned lengths 0..9 only."}],"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. 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