{"id":5007,"job_id":9929,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9929: H75, maintenance of the tiny-input direction (padding lens), row 35 screen\n## Question\nDo the campaign's exact claims still reproduce, and does padding that repeats itself inside one block - free data words equal to\neach other (m0 = m1, e.g. 'abcdabcd') or to the side's own length word (m0 = 8 L) - give a step symmetry or cancellation that\nlowers the (8,9) s = 15/16 route (2^50.2) or an s >= 17 class (2^64)?\n## Prediction (bound written before any code, prereg.md)\n<= 0 bits by proof: a symmetry between two reads of one value needs the same step map, but every free read slot has its own\n(round, K, rotation); and a repeated value is a 32-bit restriction of one side that removes solutions without changing the per-trial\nwork of the deterministic inversion (Lemma I). Predicted: random-looking truncated s = 16 states, no cross-step equalities.\n## Method\nRe-ran the fourteen maintenance scripts and compared stdout with the stored outputs. row35.py checks the model against hashlib,\nlists the read slots and their (round, K, rotation), and compares 2^16 class inputs (m0 = m1, L = 8, 9) with 2^16 random inputs:\n20-bit truncated s = 16 birthday counts and cross-step equalities Q_i = Q_j. Reproduced the recipe from the uploaded copies in an\nempty directory (all fifteen outputs identical).\n## Results\n- All fourteen maintenance outputs byte-identical; every check passes.\n- 64 distinct K_i; 16 of 16 free read slots have distinct (round, K, rotation).\n- Birthday counts 2064 / 2077 (L = 8 random / m0 = m1) and 2028 / 2052 (L = 9) against 2048 +- 45; 0 cross-step equalities.\n- m0 = 8 L needs bytes 40/48 00 00 00 (three NULs). One 32-bit equality: (8,9) 2^8 -> 2^-24, (9,9) 2^15 -> 2^-17, (7,9) 2^0 -> 2^-32\n  expected pairs. 0 bits, no new audit row (F171).\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 fifteen scripts; open a row 36 only for a padding idea absent from the record with a counted bound >= 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.06,"hashes":{"row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","row23.py":"ce9c3ba04680769611a1caa82ddd7a957938cd64b09dbfe08ec9151e31ed1875","row24.py":"0a9dabb6bb6e92bc25e0531bf34043e97193d110633213c963403e457bce8ec3","row25.py":"eae97ea59dffe92f2a7cf96307bab147fb74e2dd7e3c29d6b3f1f6188c8fe0ed","row26.py":"666b670d8c3e869023dc2165d9096638e65525cc29e653dd81fce95bd6b7540e","row27.py":"7b727891d314685a242e834862fba97d93cf9b355b8914971912bc2243a68ce2","row28.py":"82ce3979f25cba0eb45328296533160871576d162dff0600649e4ec40fb287e2","row29.py":"351c03a6c925bc28e5fb527889d2e2caf6ba157f52cb62e77e5254ddab037514","row30.py":"7da91a8ec49f9485abba6789c7a49dd62ab279d0de187cb28d93cf8b4591e8c4","row31.py":"157b8a135ab77dea16b85a13d5bf73b6418ef1df400cebdbd4a3c9223008bb09","row32.py":"29162ce0da826a5b08eea05b9b6c4e3a219f078507ccee753ed4a9bfacaaface","row33.py":"7efca04219a380a9ed4266ca0cc04383aab991afc2d15db29aedd300d4b012d8","row34.py":"95c047cf74f6b4065b9483c93a906f15f3ce67508b9558342bafbfee8d0f6864","row35.py":"a553c7b40ce4149ecc10eacae9987f030ff5484881a845c241e1a23cdf5f2a58","prereg.md":"466ca155de0377a6c3bc8c8497febd498ede4f75332f682fc6ac21ef419c6ac3","recipe.md":"7bb1e5da9aa42e3717c0f0c62466d7afd50bd008f2fcd48d85897a9ff033a7e0","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","row23.out":"7b6ec31944c4b539ad3eabbaed7fe417ba6b036d8ee8bc9b35d3ae97c932f906","row24.out":"e6810802ca05d63406749f88376098067a040302b457e3e1db09a502d8c7c4f7","row25.out":"cdc2efcef2ee7f8f222719e5b6058e153775572ac7368c02b121ea916f2b89f8","row26.out":"41ff30e6bb2f72646cc0206e27138460086aa11b1ed883f3cf2597c409760c31","row27.out":"fb0f492495dc7f693dd8fa3e848b62fd5040b59ebf055d66352744d1fcff15aa","row28.out":"2f4c0c6bcdc635f3061b500e194b8a47ea7959f143c767b6467d55d421a4d817","row29.out":"befd0803112784b5881edbf4a0788ec42fb9f83617da98e23cea0d532f60e262","row30.out":"350ed8bd7942e1d104b7109ca098f6d2a2f5c1ffa2174b2c66ceb0d30056f22a","row31.out":"14a20559fb7213271f633dda6a790516de73870c3f9290dede549d625d77c863","row32.out":"814efb2e9dd3df3e1982fbfb6901650a3928216343ce0e52f709d811960540be","row33.out":"f645dd79248865aa0b3c144ebfedff61b4a2c208038fd5133ba12911443b4dd5","row34.out":"a4e223346e5b6df521ab3962f9068cd0b1ba1ca7fada0e5a9bad7109fdb3af12","row35.out":"f50de795fe15e0136a346f0eca4679165fdb7678795fa1b505eee80971a9f37c","results.md":"da847943f3502fd33f0aee14afa538e5cb2f5bd00e6b229089c1bacdf9d69655","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T08:35:09.906Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[5006,5005,5002],"messages":[7990]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":68,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":26312},"output":26312,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1832520,"cache_write":72878,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (job 9929, s664)\n1. `python3 job9929-final_check.py > out.txt` (pure Python, < 1 s): re-derives every exact claim of the final report; compare with job9929-final_check.out.\n2. `python3 job9929-row18.py > out18.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9929-row18.out.\n3. `python3 job9929-row23.py > out23.txt` (about 2 s, seed 0x650); compare with job9929-row23.out.\n4. `python3 job9929-row24.py > out24.txt` (about 1 s); compare with job9929-row24.out.\n5. `python3 job9929-row25.py 32 > out25.txt` (about 13 s, seed 0x653); compare with job9929-row25.out.\n6. `python3 job9929-row26.py > out26.txt` (about 1.5 s, seed 0x654); compare with job9929-row26.out.\n7. `python3 job9929-row27.py > out27.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9929-row27.out.\n8. `python3 job9929-row28.py > out28.txt` (< 1 s, seed 657); compare with job9929-row28.out.\n9. `python3 job9929-row29.py 18 > out29.txt` (about 92 s, seed 0x658, Python 3.9+); compare with job9929-row29.out.\n10. `python3 job9929-row30.py > out30.txt` (< 1 s, seed 0x659, Python 3.8+); compare with job9929-row30.out.\n11. `python3 job9929-row31.py > out31.txt` (about 1 s, seed 0x660, Python 3.8+); compare with job9929-row31.out.\n12. `python3 job9929-row32.py > out32.txt` (< 1 s, seed 0x661, Python 3.8+); compare with job9929-row32.out.\n13. `python3 job9929-row33.py > out33.txt` (about 4 s, seed 0x662, Python 3.8+); compare with job9929-row33.out.\n14. `python3 job9929-row34.py > out34.txt` (about 7 s, seed 0x663, Python 3.8+); compare with job9929-row34.out.\n15. `python3 job9929-row35.py > out35.txt` (about 3 s, seed 0x664, Python 3.8+); compare with job9929-row35.out.\nRow 35 screen (repeated values inside one padded block: m0 = m1, data word = length word): job9929-prereg.md (bound written before code). Notes and verdict: job9929-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_4ca2828d697aaea4c041d010","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-a","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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Both inputs of 0..9 bytes (only m0..m2 carry data and the 0x80 marker, m14 = 8 x length, m3..m13 = m15 = 0).","statement_md":"Re-running row27.py, row28.py (seed 657), row29.py 18 (seed 0x658), row30.py (seed 0x659), row31.py (seed 0x660), row32.py (seed 0x661), row33.py (seed 0x662) and row34.py (seed 0x663) reproduces their stored outputs byte for byte: the zero-window permutation is applied once per side, a biclique shares at most steps 0..1 of a trial, linear approximations to the route condition are weak (max eps 0.0246), the zero window holds 0 free bits for a rebound inbound phase, and no Klima tunnel has a free repair word before the compared state, the zero window has no probability-1 affine relations after 4 steps, the (8,9) length-word difference has no constant difference bit at the state after step 2, and every input of 0..55 bytes is one compression call (Merkle-Damgard generic attacks need >= 2).","assumptions_md":"final_check.py, row18.py, row23.py, row25.py, row26.py, row27.py, row28.py, row29.py, row30.py, row31.py, row32.py, row33.py, row34.py, row35.py: pure Python step-reduced MD5 checked against hashlib at s = 64; arguments (4000 0x639, 200 0x640, 2^17 0x650, 32 draws 0x653, 200 pairs per length pair 0x654, 4096 states 656, 2000 flips per word 657, 2^18 samples 0x658, 2^16 middle states 0x659, 2^10 states 0x660, 321 samples per k 0x661, 2^16 A's 0x662, 2^16 inputs per (s, L) 0x663, 2^16 inputs per set 0x664), deterministic. row24.py: exact union-find census, no sampling.","artifact_sha256":["7b727891d314685a242e834862fba97d93cf9b355b8914971912bc2243a68ce2","fb0f492495dc7f693dd8fa3e848b62fd5040b59ebf055d66352744d1fcff15aa","82ce3979f25cba0eb45328296533160871576d162dff0600649e4ec40fb287e2","2f4c0c6bcdc635f3061b500e194b8a47ea7959f143c767b6467d55d421a4d817","351c03a6c925bc28e5fb527889d2e2caf6ba157f52cb62e77e5254ddab037514","befd0803112784b5881edbf4a0788ec42fb9f83617da98e23cea0d532f60e262","7da91a8ec49f9485abba6789c7a49dd62ab279d0de187cb28d93cf8b4591e8c4","350ed8bd7942e1d104b7109ca098f6d2a2f5c1ffa2174b2c66ceb0d30056f22a","157b8a135ab77dea16b85a13d5bf73b6418ef1df400cebdbd4a3c9223008bb09","14a20559fb7213271f633dda6a790516de73870c3f9290dede549d625d77c863","29162ce0da826a5b08eea05b9b6c4e3a219f078507ccee753ed4a9bfacaaface","814efb2e9dd3df3e1982fbfb6901650a3928216343ce0e52f709d811960540be","7efca04219a380a9ed4266ca0cc04383aab991afc2d15db29aedd300d4b012d8","f645dd79248865aa0b3c144ebfedff61b4a2c208038fd5133ba12911443b4dd5","95c047cf74f6b4065b9483c93a906f15f3ce67508b9558342bafbfee8d0f6864","a4e223346e5b6df521ab3962f9068cd0b1ba1ca7fada0e5a9bad7109fdb3af12","da847943f3502fd33f0aee14afa538e5cb2f5bd00e6b229089c1bacdf9d69655"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5 IV, step function and padding; inputs of 0..9 bytes."},{"key":"md5-tiny-row35-repeated-values-one-block","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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