{"id":5008,"job_id":9931,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9931: H76, maintenance of the tiny-input direction (padding lens), row 36 screen\n## Question\nDo the campaign's exact claims still reproduce, and does the structure of the IV that every padded tiny block starts from - the\nstandard IV satisfies c = ~a and d = ~b, i.e. it is fixed by the affine map tau(a,b,c,d) = (~c,~d,~a,~b) - survive into the\nzero-word window (steps 3..13) or conjugate a step into another step or its inverse, giving a free match between two padded blocks?\n## Prediction (bound written before any code, prereg.md)\n0 bits by proof: conjugating a step by such a map moves the new word to a different slot, so it is never a step or an inverse step;\nthe IV relation is copied for a step or two and is common to both sides. The prereg named the map (~d,~c,~b,~a), a misreading of the\nIV: P1 (the map fixes the IV) failed as written; the map that does fix it is tau, and the script tests both with the same P2..P4.\n## Method\nRe-ran the fifteen maintenance scripts and compared stdout with the stored outputs. row36.py checks the model against hashlib,\ntests both maps on the IV, compares (map step_t map) with step_u and step_u^-1 for all t, u on 2^11 random states per step (zero\nword), tracks the 12 ordered relations x = ~y over 16 steps of 2^16 8-byte padded blocks, and counts 20-bit cross-side s = 16\nmatches through each map. Reproduced the recipe from the uploaded copies in an empty directory.\n## Results\n- All fifteen maintenance outputs byte-identical; every check passes.\n- tau(IV) = IV; the pre-registered map does not fix the IV (P1 wrong as written).\n- 0 full matches for either map in 2^24 comparisons each; only copied words agree.\n- IV relations: a = ~c, b = ~d after 0 steps, a = ~c after 1, none after 2..16 (0 hits).\n- Cross-side 20-bit s = 16 matches through sigma / tau / identity: 4105 / 4120 / 4184 vs 4096 +- 64. 0 bits, no new row (F172).\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 sixteen scripts; open a row 37 only for a padding idea absent from the record with a counted bound >= 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.05,"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","row36.py":"1ca52599624c0c562ac857854cf05bd506c4a09e28e28c4bb38a40181bb8e7ac","prereg.md":"ebf06eb1b45082d060862715efdf99ea197a0ac22613e5a80667f7a9d6224af6","recipe.md":"a6e88d064b4e392cd77cf51fa3a9c721eed93e67eee75051d858c79bc7bdc31e","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","row36.out":"4d2f6952fddf6b9ff564f3b65a87ea4ec9cf5f1ce6dba05b5b2d59f83051d034","results.md":"a6880495c3d2a2f1b3a616aee58d8153eab1567bca1efee9631254780bb37916","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T08:45:05.363Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[5007,5006,5005],"messages":[7991]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":82,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":27041},"output":27041,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":2468645,"cache_write":78995,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (job 9931, s665)\n1. `python3 job9931-final_check.py > out.txt` (pure Python, < 1 s): re-derives every exact claim of the final report; compare with job9931-final_check.out.\n2. `python3 job9931-row18.py > out18.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9931-row18.out.\n3. `python3 job9931-row23.py > out23.txt` (about 2 s, seed 0x650); compare with job9931-row23.out.\n4. `python3 job9931-row24.py > out24.txt` (about 1 s); compare with job9931-row24.out.\n5. `python3 job9931-row25.py 32 > out25.txt` (about 13 s, seed 0x653); compare with job9931-row25.out.\n6. `python3 job9931-row26.py > out26.txt` (about 1.5 s, seed 0x654); compare with job9931-row26.out.\n7. `python3 job9931-row27.py > out27.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9931-row27.out.\n8. `python3 job9931-row28.py > out28.txt` (< 1 s, seed 657); compare with job9931-row28.out.\n9. `python3 job9931-row29.py 18 > out29.txt` (about 92 s, seed 0x658, Python 3.9+); compare with job9931-row29.out.\n10. `python3 job9931-row30.py > out30.txt` (< 1 s, seed 0x659, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row30.out.\n11. `python3 job9931-row31.py > out31.txt` (about 1 s, seed 0x660, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row31.out.\n12. `python3 job9931-row32.py > out32.txt` (< 1 s, seed 0x661, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row32.out.\n13. `python3 job9931-row33.py > out33.txt` (about 4 s, seed 0x662, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row33.out.\n14. `python3 job9931-row34.py > out34.txt` (about 7 s, seed 0x663, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row34.out.\n15. `python3 job9931-row35.py > out35.txt` (about 3 s, seed 0x664, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row35.out.\n16. `python3 job9931-row36.py > out36.txt` (about 62 s, seed 0x665, Python 3.8+); compare with job9931-row36.out.\nRow 36 screen (the IV-fixing state map tau, c = ~a, d = ~b): job9931-prereg.md (bound written before code). Notes and verdict: job9931-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_320e5fd3baaf5aaab191829a","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. 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 final_check.py (4000 samples, seed 0x639), row18.py (200 targets, seed 0x640), row23.py (2^17 shared states, seed 0x650), row24.py (exact census), row25.py 32 (seed 0x653) and row26.py (seed 0x654) reproduces their stored outputs byte for byte, and every check passes: s = 2 pairs exist (e.g. '99feaj88a' / '99feaj88b'), no distinct pair of 0..9-byte inputs shares the state after any of steps 2..13, only (8,9) and (7,9) are live unequal length pairs at s = 15/16, common-midpoint double inversion of (8,9) costs 2^-120 per state, word permutations moving the length word give classes of at most 2^40 pairs, cube sums of the (8,9) route condition are random bits, and the feed-forward is a common translation.","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, row36.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, 2^11 states per step and 2^16 blocks per side 0x665), deterministic. row24.py: exact union-find census, no sampling.","artifact_sha256":["11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638","33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","ce9c3ba04680769611a1caa82ddd7a957938cd64b09dbfe08ec9151e31ed1875","7b6ec31944c4b539ad3eabbaed7fe417ba6b036d8ee8bc9b35d3ae97c932f906","0a9dabb6bb6e92bc25e0531bf34043e97193d110633213c963403e457bce8ec3","e6810802ca05d63406749f88376098067a040302b457e3e1db09a502d8c7c4f7","eae97ea59dffe92f2a7cf96307bab147fb74e2dd7e3c29d6b3f1f6188c8fe0ed","cdc2efcef2ee7f8f222719e5b6058e153775572ac7368c02b121ea916f2b89f8","666b670d8c3e869023dc2165d9096638e65525cc29e653dd81fce95bd6b7540e","41ff30e6bb2f72646cc0206e27138460086aa11b1ed883f3cf2597c409760c31","a6880495c3d2a2f1b3a616aee58d8153eab1567bca1efee9631254780bb37916"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5 IV, step function and padding; inputs of 0..9 bytes."},{"key":"md5-tiny-final-report-recheck-b","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. 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) row34.py (seed 0x663) and row35.py (seed 0x664) 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), and repeated values inside one block (m0 = m1, m0 = 8 L) meet distinct step maps.","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, row36.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, 2^11 states per step and 2^16 blocks per side 0x665), 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","a553c7b40ce4149ecc10eacae9987f030ff5484881a845c241e1a23cdf5f2a58","f50de795fe15e0136a346f0eca4679165fdb7678795fa1b505eee80971a9f37c","a6880495c3d2a2f1b3a616aee58d8153eab1567bca1efee9631254780bb37916"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5 IV, step function and padding; inputs of 0..9 bytes."},{"key":"md5-tiny-row36-iv-complement-symmetry","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. 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":"The standard MD5 IV (67452301 efcdab89 98badcfe 10325476) satisfies c = ~a and d = ~b, so it is fixed by the affine state map tau(a,b,c,d) = (~c,~d,~a,~b). For MD5 inputs of 0..9 bytes this gives no saving: tau step tau maps (a,b,c,d) to (d, a, b, new) while a step gives (d, new, b, c) and an inverse step (new, c, d, a), so tau conjugates no step (any message word) to a step or inverse step (0 full matches in 2^24 comparisons, zero word; same for the pre-registered map (~d,~c,~b,~a), which does not fix the IV). On 2^16 8-byte padded blocks the IV relations hold after 0 steps, a = ~c after 1, none after 2..16; cross-side 20-bit s = 16 matches through tau are 4120 vs 4096 +- 64. 0 bits.","assumptions_md":"Bound written before code (prereg.md): 0 bits by proof (no step conjugacy). P1 failed as written (the prereg's map does not fix the IV; corrected to tau after the first run, recorded in prereg.md); P2..P4 held for both maps. Seed 0x665.","artifact_sha256":["ebf06eb1b45082d060862715efdf99ea197a0ac22613e5a80667f7a9d6224af6","1ca52599624c0c562ac857854cf05bd506c4a09e28e28c4bb38a40181bb8e7ac","4d2f6952fddf6b9ff564f3b65a87ea4ec9cf5f1ce6dba05b5b2d59f83051d034","a6880495c3d2a2f1b3a616aee58d8153eab1567bca1efee9631254780bb37916"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5 IV, step function and padding; inputs of 0..9 bytes."}],"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. 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