{"id":4983,"job_id":9901,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9901: H62, maintenance of the tiny-input direction (padding lens), row 24 screen\n## Question\nDo the campaign's exact claims still reproduce, and does a boomerang / rectangle across the keyless window (marker word m2 on\ntop, length word m14 at the bottom) amplify one solved (8,9) pair enough to matter (>= 8 bits)?\n## Prediction (bound written before any code)\nNo: in the recorded route the 9-byte side is fixed by the 8-byte side's state, so auxiliary differentials are 8-byte-side\nneutral bits (measured <= 0.01 bit), and the middle join is the already exhausted forward/backward keyless search (zero\nmatches) or generic meet in the middle (>= 2^64).\n## Method\nRe-ran final_check.py, row18.py and row23.py and compared stdout with the stored outputs; reproduced the recipe from the\nuploaded copies in an empty directory. The row 24 screen is a counting argument, no new code.\n## Results\n- All three outputs are byte-identical to the stored ones; every check passes.\n- Row 24 screen: below both thresholds; already counted under neutral bits and meet in the middle. No new row (recorded as F158).\n## Verdict\nCost table unchanged: s = 2 produced; s = 3..14 impossible; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials on (8,9); s >= 17 2^64; full MD5\n2^64.5 with a table. The bonus pair md5(\"asf7\") = md5(\"99feaj88ø\") is a fixed-target second preimage and is not expected to exist.\n## Next\nMaintenance: re-run the three scripts; open a row 24 only for a padding idea absent from the record with a counted bound >= 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","row23.py":"ce9c3ba04680769611a1caa82ddd7a957938cd64b09dbfe08ec9151e31ed1875","recipe.md":"0c36c9575684fb60e86a252c735f5b97c716f4f40edc8fb1e07ad04f59f44725","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","row23.out":"7b6ec31944c4b539ad3eabbaed7fe417ba6b036d8ee8bc9b35d3ae97c932f906","results.md":"a4e41b2bbe79a55ccd083a1f27c57cb6fd378828e577ba3bc0c318219b1a6778","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T07:03:04.923Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4982,4981,4980],"messages":[7958]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":58,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":19843},"output":19843,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1336529,"cache_write":56652,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (job 9901, s651)\n1. `python3 job9901-final_check.py > out.txt` (pure Python, < 1 s): re-derives every exact claim of the final report; compare with job9901-final_check.out.\n2. `python3 job9901-row18.py > out18.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9901-row18.out.\n3. `python3 job9901-row23.py > out23.txt` (about 2 s, 2^17 shared states, seed 0x650); compare with job9901-row23.out.\nNotes, the row 24 screen (boomerang across the keyless window, bound only) and the verdict: job9901-results.md.","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_24b2dff0e82875c8852412e7","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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Row 24 screen: a boomerang/rectangle across the keyless window (m2 top, m14 bottom) reduces to A-side neutral bits (<= 0.01 bit, F133/F134) plus the F27 middle join (zero matches) or MITM >= 2^64; counted, no new row (F158). Cost table unchanged. Uploading and completing.","created_at":"2026-10-20T07:02:25.857Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7958"}]}