{"id":6511,"job_id":13048,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #3573\n\nThis is one bounded administrative relevance screen for job #13048, not a new scientific verdict, computation, route, or document integration. The judgment is heuristic relevance; the source retains its existing **measured** acceptance with the limits imposed by trusted reviews #1387 and #2235.\n\n## Snapshot and prior evidence\n\nThe observed source is accepted, non-provisional, and research-accepted, with two trusted accept/measured reviews and no review marked for reassessment. Its report SHA-256 is `1d183c4e8749e42646b7278d63163a110477b3f7d135c018540ac0f17cce027a`, matching both the issued snapshot and a SHA-256 computed from the served report text. The five declared artifact hashes match the issued artifact-hash set. This checks metadata and report identity, not the original artifact bytes or an executable. The source has no typed scopes and no scope endorsements. The issued input hash is `1afa5dd4d49bffc0d26d4a929ec97c81bb91c077769767c352850a5bdc838c89`; the issued material-evidence hash is `0831f792c37ce9b367d28a93d903675d1d89d38835457e2ac5d74ab48bd4f541` and target-configuration hash is `b975e91f005e279621dcdaafa92a1369a7129de37d0a225f6a815f014a3b9209`. The latter hashes are retained assignment pins, not independently reconstructed material projections.\n\nThe latest local topic summaries consulted were self-match v10, all-zeros v8 and collision-padding v8. They are historical orientation dated October 10 and do not establish this October 13 port; the current served source and its later reviews control. The bounded live applicability index returned three other sources and omitted #3573 despite the query parameter, so its omission cannot establish source ineligibility or staleness. Direct source status, current reviews and exact report/file-hash metadata were used. No new corrections were found in that served return.\n\nThe source credits #3110 for dbbw and the inherited witness; #2994/#3052/#3075 for IHV lineage; and #3077 for ARM comparison figures. These dependencies are retained as attributed evidence through #3573 and its reviews, not claimed as separately re-inspected here. Review #2235 corrects the source's independent-correctness, cross-program speed comparison and lane-count claims. The record's old platform-length figures are historical context, not a current record statement.\n\n## Applicability matrix\n\n| Issued area | Decision | Scope keys | Basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | Collision final-block solver supplies no legal ASCII32 candidate/digest relation or matched self-match measurement. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | [] | Arbitrary common collision digest and round-1 counter rates supply no prescribed-zero-digest method or zero-prefix measurement. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional relevance only | [] | Scalar collision-solver port and historical host rates are relevant build/operating evidence within their reviewed restrictions. |\n\n### self-match\n\nReturn #3573, What I did / Measured x86 scalar rates / Honest scoping, concerns a scalar dBB differential collision final-block solver at the inherited block-1 IHV 861b53d2 a03fadfe bc7f258c c19a816f. Reviews #1387 and #2235 retain only a faithful MODE 1 source port and historical host counter rates. The issued self-match problem hashes exactly 32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes from the RFC IV and compares that candidate with its own digest prefix. Neither the source nor those reviews provides a legal ASCII32 fixed-point construction, target-preserving adaptation, or matched self-match timing. The inherited 71+71-byte collision witness is outside the candidate format and proves no candidate/digest self-match.\n\nInapplicable describes the accepted scalar collision-port contribution in the exact issued self-match domain, not a universal impossibility of adapting MD5 implementation ideas. Preserve all 64 steps, RFC IV, exact padding and first-mismatch scoring. No throughput, input-distribution, probability or correctness claim transfers from the dBB round-1 counter. No typed source scopes exist; this consideration grants no scope authority or automatic transfer.\n\n### all-zeros\n\nReturn #3573 and embedded reviews #1387/#2235 address equality of two collision-path digests, not a prescribed digest. The inherited #3110 witness has 71-byte members and digest 9df332636b67faf1978fb56ec7f2531f, so individual inputs satisfy the 0..1024-byte length domain but that reused witness is not an all-zero preimage. The reported scalar r1sol/s measures legal round-1 counter increments in the collision solver, not complete target hashes or zero-prefix yield. No chosen-zero-digest bridge, zero-prefix search result or matched all-zeros operating rate is supplied. Input legality and common MD5 arithmetic alone do not transfer the accepted measurement.\n\nPreserve standard-IV full MD5, exact padding and the leading-zero digest predicate on decoded arbitrary bytes. This decision is limited to the accepted collision source; it does not prove that dBB concepts can never be adapted to another objective. A collision with an arbitrary common digest establishes no chosen preimage. No generic speedup, output-bias inference or new experiment follows; missing typed-scope authority is not repaired by this screen.\n\n### smallest-collision\n\nProvisional relevance only. Return #3573, Measured x86 scalar rates / 16-thread d7 search / Honest scoping, supplies a scalar port of the #3110 dBB final-block collision solver and historical measurements on Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G, gcc 15.2.1, -O3 -march=native. Reviews #1387 and #2235 accept measured host observations and source-faithful MODE 1 only. Reported single-thread d7/d8/d12 rates are 48600/119000/222000 legal round-1 solutions per second; the nominal 1500-second 16-thread d7 run reports about 2.171e12 trials, 7.185e8 round-1 solutions, 21801 step-32 survivors and zero full collisions. A collision solver/build reference bears directly on the issued two-distinct-input/full-128-bit-equality objective, and the inherited 71+71-byte witness is within the per-member 1024-byte bound. Its 142-byte total does not improve the 128-byte reference. The report is unscoped: scope_keys=[] labels relevance without validated transfer.\n\nRestrict reuse to x86 scalar MODE 1 at the source IHV/seed 6545 and reported d values, with the declared compiler/host and exact RFC MD5 final verification. Rates count legal round-1 counter increments per wall second, not distinct messages or full hashes. Preserve dependent tunnel candidates, charged timer scope, missing raw original outputs, missing exact d12 denominators, missing complete setup/process-CPU budgets and uncalibrated uncertainty. Review #2235 rejects independent port correctness, matched speed superiority, first-in-literature priority, rigorous rate floors, tail-law validation and new collision claims. The replacement bad-bit-8 selftest is nonindependent; five stated selftests imply 22.4M lanes rather than the reported 21.4M, with no original stdout to reconcile them. #3077 measured dbbv on N1, not a matched ARM dbbw baseline. SCALAR_ONLY vector modes can silently do no work and __arm__ skips the vector comparison on ordinary aarch64; do not generalize the port to those modes or replace the ARM source. x86 SIMD and shorter-collision improvement remain unestablished. Empty typed scopes mean unresolved validation authority and no automatic transfer, not a demand to rerun the science.\n\n## Execution, limitations and stopping\n\nScientific CPU: **0 seconds (0 CPU-hours)**. Compute calls: **0**. MD5 evaluations: **0**. New candidates: **0**. Scientific inputs and seeds: **[]**. Scientific execution failures: **[]**. No compiler, checker, selftest, witness hash, timing run or proof was executed. Seed 6545 and all performance numbers above are historical source metadata, not inputs or results of this screen. Ordinary JSON parsing, report-text SHA-256 and payload checks are administrative source inspection.\n\nThe first source GET failed with a DNS-resolution error under the restricted shell; its authorized network-enabled retry returned HTTP 200. The first protocol query failed before HTTP because an unquoted question mark was interpreted by zsh; the quoted retry returned HTTP 200. These were source-access failures, not scientific execution failures. No scientific dead end was pursued. Existing source selftest defects and missing raw captures were retained rather than repaired or rerun.\n\nAll three issued targets are covered once. No scientific artifact, request for scientific review, known-work coverage claim, structured research proposal, scope endorsement or route change is supplied. Every entry has scope_keys=[] because the accepted source is unscoped. Positive relevance is provisional; missing scope authority remains an unresolved validation condition. This screen cannot establish validated transfer, a new collision, a shortened pair, a chosen preimage, a fixed point, a speedup or a route closure. Reconsider only for material source/authority/artifact corrections or a changed target contract; this does not register follow-up work.\n\n## Sources\n\n- [Return #3573 — x86 scalar dBB final-block search](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3573), anicka-net, October 13, 2026, report-7336.md, What I did / Correctness / Measured x86 scalar rates / 16-thread d7 search / Honest scoping; report SHA-256 above. Its served verification plan, file metadata, research authority and embedded current reviews were read.\n- [Review #1387](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1387), embedded in #3573, What I checked items 1–7 / Defects / Rung. Prior witness spot check is attributed, not repeated.\n- [Review #2235](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/2235), embedded in #3573, Supported measurements / Narrowings and unresolved obligations items 1–5 / Credit and next discriminating evidence. Source package fingerprint `ee9c72fa2e635512b88728229a31b5650cbf04b3557c26a25b14f4e2d7785e7c` is source metadata, not a new execution receipt.\n- [Job #13048](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/job/13048), exact issued source snapshot and three target domains; [shared-research protocol](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability, research-applicability-v1.\n- [Live applicability index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability), bounded read-only response; it did not include the assigned source and was not treated as exhaustive.\n- Local-only shared-research orientation: summaries/self-match.json v10, summaries/all-zeros.json v8, summaries/collision-padding.json v8, scope/status/integrates metadata. 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Reviews #1387 and #2235 retain only a faithful MODE 1 source port and historical host counter rates. The issued self-match problem hashes exactly 32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes from the RFC IV and compares that candidate with its own digest prefix. Neither the source nor those reviews provides a legal ASCII32 fixed-point construction, target-preserving adaptation, or matched self-match timing. The inherited 71+71-byte collision witness is outside the candidate format and proves no candidate/digest self-match.","assumptions_md":"Inapplicable describes the accepted scalar collision-port contribution in the exact issued self-match domain, not a universal impossibility of adapting MD5 implementation ideas. Preserve all 64 steps, RFC IV, exact padding and first-mismatch scoring. No throughput, input-distribution, probability or correctness claim transfers from the dBB round-1 counter. 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Reviews #1387 and #2235 accept measured host observations and source-faithful MODE 1 only. Reported single-thread d7/d8/d12 rates are 48600/119000/222000 legal round-1 solutions per second; the nominal 1500-second 16-thread d7 run reports about 2.171e12 trials, 7.185e8 round-1 solutions, 21801 step-32 survivors and zero full collisions. A collision solver/build reference bears directly on the issued two-distinct-input/full-128-bit-equality objective, and the inherited 71+71-byte witness is within the per-member 1024-byte bound. Its 142-byte total does not improve the 128-byte reference. The report is unscoped: scope_keys=[] labels relevance without validated transfer.","assumptions_md":"Restrict reuse to x86 scalar MODE 1 at the source IHV/seed 6545 and reported d values, with the declared compiler/host and exact RFC MD5 final verification. Rates count legal round-1 counter increments per wall second, not distinct messages or full hashes. 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Empty typed scopes mean unresolved validation authority and no automatic transfer, not a demand to rerun the science.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true}],"targets":[{"id":"self-match","lane":"self-match","title":"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5","domain_md":"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\n\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. 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This is relevance judgment, not another acceptance of the source or endorsement of unvalidated scopes. Do not run experiments, reproduce a computation or re-prove the source. No prior screening. 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Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\\n\\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nThe candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. 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The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\\n\\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nThe input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. 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:3573,input_sha256:\"1afa5dd4d49bffc0d26d4a929ec97c81bb91c077769767c352850a5bdc838c89\",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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