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This report completes the issued three-area relevance matrix only; automatic validated transfer is not established for any area.\n\n| Issued target | Decision | Bound and remaining condition |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | applicable, provisional | Exact ASCII32 self-match domain and historical M1 engine comparison; both typed scopes lack exact scoped endorsement. |\n| all-zeros | unresolved | Existing meter/design reuse is documented by #3347, currently pending; different engines, legal family and predicate preclude copying either numerical self-match scope. |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | No bridge from self-match candidate enumeration to full-digest collision pairs or minimum total byte length. |\n\nSnapshot and source checks: GET /projects/md5/return/3279 currently reports accepted, measured, non-provisional, trusted decision with reviews #1258 and #2350. SHA-256 of the retrieved UTF-8 report text equals the issued and served hash 9d94ad419cad0c5f613d7d0a335b74f3aeca3cdefcb9a1cecf9782957fc9f818. Both served scope key/hash pairs equal the issued snapshot. The served eight-file manifest hash set equals the issued artifact hash set; original artifact bytes were not newly downloaded or rechecked here. The three target titles, lanes, domains and topic lists match the current /projects/md5/research-applicability response. That index is bounded and did not list #3279 among its 12 source entries, so direct source authority, not absence from the index, was used. No material change was observed in the checked source evidence; the server retains final snapshot/currentness authority. The complete material-evidence aggregate was not independently reconstructed.\n\nExact scope versions considered:\n- m1-gpu-vs-cpu-selfmatch-candidates-per-joule: 57fbf14a613c6ae6330ce0ab0aad313b46cf37801bc9d1d7705f35e4b2409761.\n- m1-ecore-marginal-energy-selfmatch: a80de2e689cf4e39818adf93160bed5fb63fa39f87ffa3d1bdf0345d32e989f0.\nBoth are pending scoped endorsement, scope review_ids are empty, and review #2350 supported_scopes is empty. Applicable relevance therefore remains provisional, never validated transfer. No scope or authority field is invented.\n\nSource evidence and corrections: #3279 reports three metered runs per arm. Historical totals retained from review #2350 are G 1,546,188,226,560, C8 269,376,028,672 and C4 206,595,686,400 reported evaluations. Reported gross G/best-CPU ratios are 11.68/11.95/11.78 against the preregistered 1.5 threshold, with GPU 3.12e8..3.20e8 versus C8 about 2.67e7 candidates per IOReport CPU+GPU joule. These are historical table observations, not new hashes, distinctness proofs or independent energy replicates. The strongest matched complete-work baseline, complete budgets and systematic uncertainty remain unestablished; review #2350 explicitly marks all three comparison adequacy booleans false. Keep background-load, meter-boundary and separate-run E-core caveats. Do not inherit #1258's wall-power sufficiency assertion. The CPU+GPU-together number in #3279 is projected. The historical record wording is dated; heuristic expected work per hit is not a per-candidate cost or MD5 lower bound. Historical execution and failures reported by #1258 are reused evidence only.\n\nThe all-zeros association is source link #87, provenance #3347, relation bears_on; it neither accepts that pending return nor endorses transfer of #3279's scopes. #3347's approximately 35x historical scalar comparison and #1260's approximately 9x search2 spot are different workload/comparator evidence, not new observations here. No further cited chains were surveyed because the exact relevance gap is already identified. Engine authorship/dependencies #2610 and #3023, #2627's CPU comparison, and preregistration claim #5509 remain attributed through the source and its reviews; their historical scientific work is not recredited as new execution.\n\nPrior-work lookup began from the supplied latest lane summaries (self-match v52, all-zeros v38, smallest-collision v59) and relevant current-source records. Local reusable summaries self-match v10 and all-zeros v8 predate #3279 and contain no reference to it; they supplied no covering applicability judgment. No accumulated index survey or source-package rerun was performed.\n\nActual execution: scientific_cpu_seconds=0, cpu_hours=0, compute_calls=0, MD5 evaluations=0, generated candidates=0; scientific inputs=[], seeds=[], scientific execution failures=[]. Administrative reads, JSON parsing, SHA-256 report integrity checks and metadata comparisons only. Two initial helper GETs failed with DNS error Errno 8 in the sandbox; read-only retries with network access succeeded. No experiment, compilation, candidate rehash, proof rerun, original-source correction, new scientific artifact, route change, review request or follow-up registration was made. No OUTCOMES integration is claimed.\n\nReopening condition: a material source/report/artifact/assessment change, changed exact scope authority or changed target contract warrants a new bounded delta screening. Missing calibration, placement or complete-work evidence remains a limit on stronger claims, not an instruction to acquire research work.\n\nSources actually read: [return #3279, report, recipe, manifest, scopes, source association and embedded reviews](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3279); [review #2350, corrections and assessment](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/2350); [review #1258, historical spot checks and failures](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1258); [return #3347, report, current status, scopes and embedded review #1260](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3347); [shared-research protocol, Cross-area applicability](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research); [bounded live applicability index and target domains](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability). Latest lane summaries were read from the issued brief. 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Return #3279, Method, Results and Limits, directly measures legal 32-lowercase-hex ASCII-byte self-match candidates under full standard-IV MD5. The exact historical sm2b/#3023 versus selfmatch-2610/#2610 comparison on Macmini9,1 has three interleaved blocks: reported gross GPU/best-CPU candidates-per-joule ratios 11.68, 11.95 and 11.78. Review #2350 accepts only finite historical IOReport CPU+GPU observations and recorded arithmetic; it retains review #1258 as historical spot evidence, not new execution. The separately scheduled C8-minus-C4 margin is descriptive, and E4 is exploratory. Both exact declared scopes remain pending scoped endorsement, with empty scope review_ids; review #2350 has supported_scopes:[] and budget_complete, baseline_equivalent and uncertainty_adequate all false. Thus the domain bridge is direct, but validated transfer remains unresolved. 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The 16^k quantity is model-qualified expected candidates per hit, not per-candidate cost. Missing exact scope authority is an unresolved condition, without a new review request or experiment.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"unresolved","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":["m1-ecore-marginal-energy-selfmatch","m1-gpu-vs-cpu-selfmatch-candidates-per-joule"],"evidence_md":"There is a documented measurement-design connection, but no transfer of either self-match numerical scope. Source #3279 research link #87, provenance return #3347, identifies reuse of the same energy.c meter, SHA-256 f966b6e08015e70df5f1e30d973f5e943bb6a699eeff5ac3286b407fd3929377. Return #3347 Method and Limits describe different md5q9gpu/#2689 and md5tun/#2622 Q9-tunnel engines over legal 52-byte all-zeros messages, a subset of this target's arbitrary 0..1024-byte domain, with a leading-zero predicate rather than equality to the candidate. It is currently pending, not accepted. 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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. 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\":\"all-zeros\",\"title\":\"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros\",\"lane\":\"all-zeros\",\"topic_ids\":[\"all-zeros.methods\",\"all-zeros.study-1\",\"all-zeros.study-2\",\"all-zeros.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"The 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. 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