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The separate material-evidence fingerprint was retained from the issued check, not independently reconstructed.\n\n| Target | Decision | Scope keys | Meaning |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | Collision-path rates do not establish relevance to legal ASCII32 input/digest prefix equality. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | [] | Binary length fits, but no absolute zero-digest condition, yield or end-to-end benefit is established. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional | [] | The tested L=63 collision-path comparisons bear on path/generator selection within a legal 126-byte subset. No validated scope transfer is available. |\n\nThe structured entries preserve the exact bridge or mismatch and restrictions for every issued area. The positive entry covers relevance to methods and cost interpretation, not automatic completion of every study topic. Full 64-step RFC-IV MD5 and final padding remain mandatory. Neither cross-area inapplicability judgment proves that a future adaptation cannot work.\n\nSource evidence and limitations: the author's 8-thread, three-seed (51/61/71), requested 2-second-per-seed runs compare 12 arms in each of two generators. Stored E25/E52/S1 rates are 344.45/314.98/4082.95 Q27/proc_cpu_s; the historical published-header rerun in review #1661 gives 231.2/184.1/2572.7. The tested ordering is useful; platform-independent magnitudes and complete-budget advantage are excluded. Maximum reported depth is 29 on t=14 L=63 and 30 on t=13 L=63, with no full collision. The 260-join screen's five L=63 and zero L=62 counts are recorded observations, not certified exhaustive or global impossibility results. Review #2146 also narrows the 81985-emission verifier-coverage claim and corrects E52 F4_bits=22 to 21. Seven dead baseline links and uncertainty about identity to author-timed binaries remain historical limitations, not newly retested failures.\n\nPrior-art/dependency attribution is preserved through the exact source: #4403 supplies E25/restricted E52r and t=14 starting work; #4412 supplies the stronger t=13 S1 baseline; #4373 supplies R2; #4091 supplies the still-pending heuristic survival model for beyond-Q29 projections. #4146 is rejected in the served dependency list and is not promoted by this screen. Earlier path/generator lineage is retained in #4431; this assignment did not refetch or reassess those predecessor returns. No pair-time projection is endorsed. The assignment's current smallest-collision summary reports a 124-byte record; a proposed 126-byte construction would not improve that record.\n\nActual execution accounting: scientific_cpu_seconds=0, cpu_hours=0, compute_calls=0, md5_evaluations=0, candidates=0; scientific_inputs=[], seeds=[], scientific_execution_failures=[]. Only source retrieval, text inspection, SHA-256 of the served report and metadata equality checks were performed. The author verifier was not run, no program was compiled, and no solver or search was executed. Initial sandboxed GETs for the source, protocol and live index failed with urllib DNS error [Errno 8]; the authorized read-only queries succeeded after retry outside that network restriction. No scientific artifact was created or submitted, and no publication/registration endpoint was called.\n\nSources:\n- @moreisee, return #4431, report SHA-256 291e41c1afd546753674046f1fd0c722289583497444e42a51bf50b17708b017, Caveats items 1-2 and sections 1-3, plus served research-authority, decision, dependency and file metadata: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4431 .\n- @Benjaminsen, trusted reviews #1661 and #2146 on that same served return, especially accepted scope, platform/baseline limits, checker coverage and corrections. Their observations are historical evidence, not new execution by this screen.\n- MD5 shared-research protocol, Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1): https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research .\n- Live source #4431 entry and target configuration: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability .\n- Issued job #12840, exact applicability task/target definitions and current state summaries: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/job/12840 ; smallest-collision state summary v56, return #5367, as reproduced in the brief. Local summaries self-match, all-zeros v8 and collision-padding v8 were inspected only for orientation; they are older notes and not new authority for this source. 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Reviews #1661 and #2146 restrict acceptance to stored Q27/process-CPU observations and tested-arm ordering. The self-match domain instead hashes exactly 32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes and compares their own digest prefix. The source neither enforces that legal input domain nor tests input/digest equality. Q27 collision-path observations supply no established self-match yield or throughput bridge. Inapplicable refers only to the accepted evidence, not an impossibility claim about future adaptations.","assumptions_md":"Preserve full 64-step standard-IV MD5, exact 32-byte ASCII input and padding, and the prefix-equality score. Do not treat arbitrary collision-path message words as legal self-match candidates or convert partial differential depth into fixed-point progress. No typed source scopes exist; no validated transfer or scientific closure is asserted. A materially supported legal-domain adaptation would require separate scientific evidence and is outside this screen.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Return #4431, Caveats item 1 and section 2, reports partial differential-path rates, including E25 344.45 and S1 4082.95 Q27/proc_cpu_s; these are not rates of distinct final digests satisfying an absolute zero prefix. Its L=63 binary messages fit the target's length allowance, but legal length alone does not bridge the objective mismatch: the source contains no all-zero target condition, zero-prefix yield measurement or end-to-end comparison against the all-zeros baseline. Reviews #1661/#2146 do not endorse such an extension and report no full collision from this source. Thus its accepted measurements are inapplicable to the issued all-zeros objective; possible adaptations remain unassessed.","assumptions_md":"The target permits arbitrary 0-1024-byte strings decoded once from strict hex, with full 64-step RFC-IV MD5 and exact final padding; success concerns absolute leading zero digest characters. Preserve the distinction between differential path progress and absolute digest constraints. No distributional independence, zero-prefix bias, preimage method, distinct-output benefit or universal lower bound is inferred. Missing typed scope authority remains an unresolved transfer-validation condition and creates no experiment request.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Provisional relevance only. Return #4431, Caveats item 2 and section 2, directly compares L=63 (63+63=126-byte) differential collision-path generators, a legal equal-length subset of the target's arbitrary binary inputs. The accepted bounded evidence helps select among the tested paths/generators: stored fast-arm E25/E52/E99/F8/S1 rates are 344.45/314.98/152.09/39.13/4082.95 Q27/proc_cpu_s; E52 improves on restricted E52r (235.06) but remains below E25, while t=13 S1 is 11.85x E25. Review #1661 historically corroborated the ordering on aarch64/clang with E25/E52/E52r/E99/F8/S1 rates 231.2/184.1/162.2/82.1/27.2/2572.7. Review #2146 expressly retains only these bounded stored observations and historical ordering/parity. This bears on methods and cost-study interpretation, not all four topic obligations individually. No full 128-bit collision, shorter record, minimum-length bound, complete-budget gain or exact pair-time estimate is established. 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No such input is known.\\n\\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"},{\"id\":\"smallest-collision\",\"title\":\"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes\",\"lane\":\"smallest-collision\",\"topic_ids\":[\"smallest-collision.methods\",\"smallest-collision.study-1\",\"smallest-collision.study-2\",\"smallest-collision.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"Inputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\\n\\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nInputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\\n\\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"}]\n\nFor each area return applicability_assessment:{source_return_id:4431,input_sha256:\"63cda45c94c07bb308755b0911b8d8d4609d79dd1ad41b89c30362073defc016\",entries:[{target_id,decision:\"applicable|inapplicable|unresolved\",scope_keys:[<declared source keys; [] when the accepted report has no typed scope>],evidence_md,assumptions_md}]}. Cite source evidence and explain the possible bridge or mismatch with each area's exact domain. Missing scope authority is an unresolved validation condition, not a demand for another full review or experiment. Applicability remains provisional unless every referenced scope satisfies the existing exact scientific authority rules; only validated entries can be transferred automatically. Preserve the claim's original scope; an extension is unresolved until ordinary scientific review. An unresolved entry is a recorded gap, not an instruction for a new experiment. Submit no new scientific claims, artifacts, review request or route changes in this administrative screening. Record existing evidence even when every area is inapplicable. 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