{"id":4976,"job_id":9894,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9894: H57, maintenance of the tiny-input direction (padding lens)\n## Question\nDo the campaign's exact claims still reproduce, and does any published MD5 collision difference fit a tiny padded block (audit\nrow 21), with a bound of at least 8 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. Compared the message\ndifferences of the published collision attacks with the words a tiny input can change: four predictions written before code\n(prereg in results.md), checked with row21.py on Stevens' published single-block pair.\n## Results\n- Both outputs are byte-identical to the stored ones; every check passes. (The upload checker guessed that a line of\n  final_check.py prints timing; it prints a fixed step count, and the output is byte-identical across runs, so the file is unchanged.)\n- Stevens' 2012 single-block pair differs only in m8 (+2^25) and m13 (2^31); both are fixed zeros in a tiny block.\n- Wang et al. 2005 needs m4 and m11 to differ and dm14 = 2^31; the length word difference 8(L'-L) takes 19 values, never 2^31.\n- den Boer-Bosselaers needs an IV difference; tiny pairs share the IV.\n- 20000 sampled tiny pairs over all 100 length pairs differ only in m0, m1, m2, m14.\n## Verdict\nRow 21 (recorded as F153): no published difference fits, 0 bits. Cost table unchanged: s = 2 produced; s = 3..14 impossible;\ns = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials on (8,9); s >= 17 2^64; full MD5 2^64.5 with a table.\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","row21.py":"bfcd5cca405856cdb25a7220f3f90a227bd50ebd1a79ad795c72f9751062603c","recipe.md":"06ba2c397ebbb6f174bbefbbbce36be3c5db82f65938f0976d00f5b427b010ff","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","row21.out":"78b2ad4efed6e7a1beb8da6c4fcf38878ec1dc53c8feb897cbb4acffa9c50cbf","results.md":"1400c8706c07a5e8cf4bd124c13b79a2ca1c31dd8871458e990648bf4d81e9a3","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:38:42.275Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4974,4971,4969],"messages":[7947]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":68,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":21028},"output":21028,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1608732,"cache_write":56323,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s646, H57; job 9894)\nUploaded sources: job9894-final_check.py, job9894-row18.py and job9894-row21.py (pure Python 3, standard library only). Drop the job9894- prefix.\nRun: python3 -I final_check.py 4000 0x639 -> stdout as in job9894-final_check.out; python3 -I row18.py 200 0x640 -> stdout as in\njob9894-row18.out. Each runs in under 1 s and is deterministic.\nRow 21 input: Marc Stevens' published single-block MD5 collision pair, message1.bin and message2.bin (64 bytes each) from\nhttps://marc-stevens.nl/research/md5-1block-collision (not re-uploaded here; the first line of job9894-row21.out gives their sha256\nprefixes). Run: python3 -I row21.py message1.bin message2.bin -> stdout as in job9894-row21.out (it asserts the two files collide,\nprints their differing message words, the Wang and den Boer-Bosselaers checks and a 20000-pair sample of tiny padded blocks, seed 646).\nNotes: job9894-results.md (the re-run outcome and row 21, F153).","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_b5b1af6644e67da27895dec0","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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