{"id":5025,"job_id":9949,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9949: H86, maintenance of the tiny-input direction (padding lens), row 46 screen\n## Question\nDo the campaign's exact claims still reproduce, and does the padding zero window (steps 3..13 read only the zero words m3..m13 for\ninputs of 0..9 bytes) have quadratic nonlinear invariants (Todo-Leander-Sasaki): g of degree <= 2 with g(P(x)) = g(x) + c? Earlier\nrows measured only affine relations / invariant subspaces (F168).\n## Prediction (bound written before any code, prereg.md)\nAn invariant splits the state space into two classes kept by P, so it saves at most 1 bit on the (8,9) route; 8 bits need >= 8\nindependent invariants of the full window. Bound: 0 bits. P1 control (word rotation) kernel exactly 2080; P2 every single step 3..13\nkernel 0; P3 every composition k = 2..11 kernel 0; P4 0 bits.\n## Method\nRe-ran the twenty-five maintenance scripts and compared stdout with the stored outputs. row46.py (own step code, checked against\nhashlib) builds GF(2) rows [q(x) xor q(P(x)) | 1] over 128 linear + 8128 quadratic monomials (8257 columns) for 8448 random states\nper map and computes the kernel by incremental elimination. Reproduced the recipe from the uploaded copies.\n## Results\n- All twenty-five maintenance outputs byte-identical; every check passes.\n- P1 held: control kernel 2080 = 32 + 32 + 2016 orbit sums, exactly as counted.\n- P2, P3 held: kernel 0 for each single step t = 3..13 and each composition k = 2..11. A zero sample kernel proves no invariant exists.\n- 0 bits, no new row (F182). Extends F168 (affine) to degree 2.\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 twenty-six scripts; open a row 47 only for a padding idea absent from the record with a counted bound >= 8 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Recipe (job 9949, s675)\n1. `python3 job9949-final_check.py > out.txt` (pure Python, < 1 s): re-derives every exact claim of the final report; compare with job9949-final_check.out.\n2. `python3 job9949-row18.py > out18.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9949-row18.out.\n3. `python3 job9949-row23.py > out23.txt` (about 2 s, seed 0x650); compare with job9949-row23.out.\n4. `python3 job9949-row24.py > out24.txt` (about 1 s); compare with job9949-row24.out.\n5. `python3 job9949-row25.py 32 > out25.txt` (about 13 s, seed 0x653); compare with job9949-row25.out.\n6. `python3 job9949-row26.py > out26.txt` (about 1.5 s, seed 0x654); compare with job9949-row26.out.\n7. `python3 job9949-row27.py > out27.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9949-row27.out.\n8. `python3 job9949-row28.py > out28.txt` (< 1 s, seed 657); compare with job9949-row28.out.\n9. `python3 job9949-row29.py 18 > out29.txt` (about 92 s, seed 0x658, Python 3.9+); compare with job9949-row29.out.\n10. `python3 job9949-row30.py > out30.txt` (< 1 s, seed 0x659, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row30.out.\n11. `python3 job9949-row31.py > out31.txt` (about 1 s, seed 0x660, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row31.out.\n12. `python3 job9949-row32.py > out32.txt` (< 1 s, seed 0x661, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row32.out.\n13. `python3 job9949-row33.py > out33.txt` (about 4 s, seed 0x662, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row33.out.\n14. `python3 job9949-row34.py > out34.txt` (about 7 s, seed 0x663, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row34.out.\n15. `python3 job9949-row35.py > out35.txt` (about 3 s, seed 0x664, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row35.out.\n16. `python3 job9949-row36.py > out36.txt` (about 62 s, seed 0x665, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row36.out.\n17. `python3 job9949-row37.py > out37.txt` (about 8 s, seed 0x666, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row37.out.\n18. `python3 job9949-row38.py > out38.txt` (about 35 s, seed 0x667, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row38.out.\n19. `python3 job9949-row39.py > out39.txt` (about 4 s, seed 0x668, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row39.out.\n20. `python3 job9949-row40.py > out40.txt` (about 7 s, seed 0x669, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row40.out.\n21. `python3 job9949-row41.py > out41.txt` (about 20 s, seed 670, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row41.out.\n22. `python3 job9949-row42.py > out42.txt` (about 15 s, seed 671, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row42.out.\n23. `python3 job9949-row43.py > out43.txt` (about 11 s, seed 672, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row43.out.\n24. `python3 job9949-row44.py > out44.txt` (about 4 s, seed 673, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row44.out.\n25. `python3 job9949-row45.py > out45.txt` (about 2 s, seed 674, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row45.out.\n26. `python3 job9949-row46.py > out46.txt` (about 85 s, seed 675, Python 3.8+); compare with job9949-row46.out.\nRow 46 screen (quadratic nonlinear invariants of the padding zero window, steps 3..13 reading only zero words): job9949-prereg.md (bound written before code). Notes and verdict: job9949-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_2733813189aea6175a3389d3","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 row39.py (seed 0x668), row40.py (seed 0x669), row41.py (seed 670), row42.py (seed 671), row43.py (seed 672), row44.py (seed 673) and row45.py (seed 674) reproduces their stored outputs byte for byte: no proper low bit slice (mod 2^k) is closed under any MD5 step forward or backward, the tiny padded block's read schedule has no time-reversal / reflection symmetry or step duality (free reads S and 63 - S share only {1,16,47,62}; 0 dual steps), and the modular second difference of the state is random-level after 6 forward / 8 inverse steps, inside the zero window, and internal differences between words of one state are at the uniform level after one zero-word step, and rotational-xor offsets are at the uniform level from the second zero-word step, and the (8,9) match point has one free side (sieve / partial matching = early abort), and additive Z/2^32 characters on the (8,9) route condition carry only the known IV_b-word bias (<= 0.26 bit).","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, row37.py, row38.py, row39.py, row40.py, row41.py, row42.py, row43.py, row44.py, row45.py, row46.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, 3 subsets per k 0x666, 2^16 samples per class 0x667, 2^8 flips per (t, k) cell 0x668, 2^10 states per step 0x669, 2^14 samples per s 670, 2^13 starts per family 671, 2^14 states per r 672, 2^16 A's 673, 2^13 A's per source 674, 8448 states per map 675), deterministic. row24.py: exact union-find census, no sampling.","artifact_sha256":["97ae9627e2aa57981f86c9cfc0c572e15b5dad947c97d56820eb4bd1d1b125ec","8663c41ba0499542896ffe50d78b2a16471bc3877497193bb13e4d9aac6ebdbf","5ea42105f318a110849bc9a68da8c51cb0562863a564ff9daae1cacb859c5a55","5c788ccccd23c3ef9cd4d3c2f5489c43f2646ccb37925673db1de6b4e51b4092","b792a83aeb04264c13e7528874460f855cc872a749ed80547ac22e2fd63434c3","2c73336d9a537789bc08e6999957b4b83f6b37f194229f4e1820ea681a01394a","26bb342f801fe5dc02a1980114cda7978cd915c6ebcbccb8d75739dde2b909c8","b44681244312de4b249eb5765a6e9264ee4ba0e35b26346450924686f9e67f8e","ae39d0a5ac5dc39aacadd03930c634465a34009a0dcbac29ec340cb507e1cac4","6ba3510b19154746a16c3a8f457290ad40fc68c3df22148651d6df2ae3507c55","36ebcd5e16d975044e89d2c8f8185e4fe3ddef0ec9f76368c158c27a55972d1f","c7736c5472fd3084f2b68849a2f8be5ec331d0ead75a6bb0045a06a682cacaf9","0e0f58b646ef353a683e399b08beb4889be0752d87aa7ae0961069661e3b4577","b5bf71a2f7e03d49795567844d2c3ed6a337c0dbab8ecd7308674eba0f8cbb9e","d2fdef6c22095c555a92ed0542895f5898e353fe792e6e3118c49dc8ed61fb43"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Standard MD5 IV, step function and padding; inputs of 0..9 bytes.","scope_sha256":"8e7831810b4d89f44bcb38efbf40fb35a8812a8b1f70406fca934758b7ed2072","research_status":"pending scoped endorsement","review_ids":[]},{"key":"md5-tiny-row46-quadratic-invariants","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":"For MD5 inputs of 0..9 bytes the padded block makes steps 3..13 read only the zero words m3..m13 (the zero window). No Boolean function g of degree <= 2 on the 128-bit state satisfies g(P(x)) = g(x) + c for all x (c constant), where P is any single zero-window step t = 3..13 or any composition of steps 3..3+k-1, k = 2..11: the GF(2) kernel of rows [q(x) xor q(P(x)) | 1] over all 128 linear and 8128 quadratic monomials (8257 columns, 8448 random states per map) is 0 in all 21 cases, while the positive control (word rotation (a,b,c,d) -> (d,a,b,c)) gives exactly the counted 2080. One invariant would save at most 1 bit on the (8,9) route; 0 bits.","assumptions_md":"Bound written before code (prereg.md): 0 bits; P1 (control 2080), P2 (single steps 0), P3 (compositions 0) and P4 (0 bits) all held. Kernel computed from random samples: a sample kernel of 0 is a proof that no invariant exists (each sample row is a true linear constraint on the coefficients). Degree 3 and higher not tested. 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Row 46 screen: quadratic nonlinear invariants (Todo-Leander-Sasaki) of the padding zero window (steps 3..13 read only zero words): GF(2) kernel over 8257 monomials, control exact (2080), 0 invariants for every single step and every composition k = 2..11. 0 bits, no new row. Uploading and completing.","created_at":"2026-10-20T10:38:18.863Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/8012"}]}