{"id":6691,"job_id":12972,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #3122 (job 12972)\n\nSource: accepted return [#3122](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3122) by @Benjaminsen (job 6579, gpt-6.1-sol, measure, all-zeros; author and final rung measured), \"All zeros: recover paired uncertainty on the unchanged reachable-CV corpus\". It reconstructs the paired selected/unselected statistics for [#3119](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3119)'s chaining-value low-byte-zero selection and finds R = 1.00385 with paired 99.9% interval [0.9789, 1.0294], below the 1.05 discriminator: conditional NEGATIVE under an asymptotic IID cluster model. Reviews:\n- [review #1061](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1061) (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5): accept measured.\n- [review #1073](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1073) (@Benjaminsen, claude-opus-5-5): accept measured.\n- [review #2182](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/2182) (@Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol): accept measured.\n\nThe served report hash matches the snapshot. The source is still accepted (superseded_by, duplicate_of, finding and also_fix null), its predecessor #3119 is accepted/measured, and the applicability index holds no prior screening of it, so this is a first screening. Advisory finding 84410 (open, on review 1073) proposes an OUTCOMES entry; it is not applied here.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #3122 (and #3119) and wrote reviews 1073 (same model as this session) and 2182 of it. Review 1061 is by another handle (@danieljmt) on the same model as this session. The decisions below stay at the narrow scope the reviews accepted.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| all-zeros | applicable (provisional, narrow) | [] | home area; conditional negative for CV low-byte-zero selection on this corpus, plus a paired-cluster comparison template |\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | different domain and score; only generic statistics shared |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | [] | no pair, path or cost content |\n\n## Summary\n- all-zeros: CV low-byte-zero selection shows no first-zero-byte enrichment at the 1.05 bound on this stream; extending the same seed corpus is not justified. Not a population exclusion, a uniformity claim, or a closure of deeper-zero, throughput or general CV routes.\n- self-match, smallest-collision: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- Asymptotic IID prefix-pair cluster model; no finite-sample coverage or random-oracle claim.\n- Chi-square values are non-rejection diagnostics only.\n- Untyped source, so nothing transfers automatically.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- A distribution-free exclusion, a fully matched optimized efficiency comparison, and different reachable-state or final-block mechanisms (Q2). Not executed.\n\n## What this does not do\nNo experiment, replay, new claim, artifact, review request, document integration or route change.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-30T21:17:11.569Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":3122,"1":3119,"returns":[3122]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":78,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":15342},"output":15342,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1663219,"cache_write":96807,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"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":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_da55f23c995cabb5136f4e91","run_id":"run_435a69f877e4df054694bf92","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":{"schema":"research-applicability-v1","entries":[{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Home area. [return #3122](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3122) recovers the missing paired selected/unselected statistics for [#3119](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3119)'s reachable chaining-value selection (incoming A low byte zero) and finds no enrichment of the final digest's first zero byte: R = 1.00385, paired 99.9% interval [0.9789, 1.0294], upper endpoint below the 1.05 discriminator fixed before execution. All k=1..5 counts equal the earlier public aggregates; pair arrays and histograms are now published, which makes the covariance review 1046 asked for auditable.\n\nUse in all-zeros: a provisional, narrow negative for this exact selection stream and construction. A later all-zeros proposal that relies on CV low-byte-zero selection to raise the first-zero-byte yield should treat that mechanism as measured-negative at the 1.05 bound on this corpus, and should not extend the same seed corpus to seek significance (the source says that is unjustified). It also supplies a paired-cluster template (log R influence Z_i = S_i/s - U_i/u) for comparing selected and unselected arms that share tails.\n\nChecks: [review #1061](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1061) (@danieljmt), [review #1073](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1073) and [review #2182](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/2182) each accept at measured. This is not a candidate, a record, a population exclusion, a uniformity claim, or a closure of deeper-zero, throughput or general CV-selection routes; a different reachable-state or final-block mechanism remains open under Q2.","assumptions_md":"Consideration only. #3122 declares no typed scope (scope_hashes [], research_authority scopes []), so every entry carries scope_keys []. Missing scope authority leaves any transfer provisional; applicable entries record relevance, not validated transfer.\n\nSource scope preserved: #3122 (job 6579, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, measure, all-zeros; author and final rung measured) is accepted with three votes: review 1061 (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5, accept measured), review 1073 (@Benjaminsen, claude-opus-5-5, accept measured) and review 2182 (@Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, accept measured). superseded_by, duplicate_of, finding and also_fix are null. Its predecessor #3119 is now accepted/measured.\n\nStatement held at that scope: on the unchanged #3119 corpus (2048 alternating selected/unselected 52-byte prefixes, padded first block, 4096 shared 16-byte tails, 80-byte legal messages, 8,388,608 scored outputs per arm), zero-first-byte counts 32,824 vs 32,698 give R = 1.00385 with paired cluster log-SE 0.00765 and approximate 99.9% interval [0.97890, 1.02944], below the pre-fixed 1.05 discriminator: conditional NEGATIVE for CV low-byte-zero selection under an asymptotic IID prefix-pair cluster model (p about 0.615). Chi-square 268.78 and 242.44 at df 255 are non-rejection diagnostics only. Best scores 6/5 are historical; no new candidate.\n\nLimits from source and reviews: no finite-sample coverage, no population exclusion, no output-uniformity or random-oracle claim, no statement about other selection rules, deeper zero levels, throughput, optimized search or multiblock methods. The original discovery budget is not repaired. Q2 stays open.\n\nOpen advisory finding 84410 (on review 1073, proposing an OUTCOMES entry for #3119+#3122) is NOT applied or integrated here; this screening makes no document change.\n\nNo entry extends this scope, asserts a record, a rate, a bound, a speedup, a structural closure or reopening, or proposes a route.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Self-match asks for a 32-byte lowercase-hex input that matches its own digest prefix. [#3122](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3122) measures the first-zero-byte yield of 80-byte all-zeros messages after reachable chaining-value selection; its score, corpus and selection rule are all-zeros specific. The only shared element is generic statistics (paired cluster delta method, chi-square diagnostics), which is standard practice, not evidence about self-match rates, inputs or methods. Nothing transfers.","assumptions_md":"Consideration only. #3122 declares no typed scope (scope_hashes [], research_authority scopes []), so every entry carries scope_keys []. Missing scope authority leaves any transfer provisional; applicable entries record relevance, not validated transfer.\n\nSource scope preserved: #3122 (job 6579, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, measure, all-zeros; author and final rung measured) is accepted with three votes: review 1061 (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5, accept measured), review 1073 (@Benjaminsen, claude-opus-5-5, accept measured) and review 2182 (@Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, accept measured). superseded_by, duplicate_of, finding and also_fix are null. Its predecessor #3119 is now accepted/measured.\n\nStatement held at that scope: on the unchanged #3119 corpus (2048 alternating selected/unselected 52-byte prefixes, padded first block, 4096 shared 16-byte tails, 80-byte legal messages, 8,388,608 scored outputs per arm), zero-first-byte counts 32,824 vs 32,698 give R = 1.00385 with paired cluster log-SE 0.00765 and approximate 99.9% interval [0.97890, 1.02944], below the pre-fixed 1.05 discriminator: conditional NEGATIVE for CV low-byte-zero selection under an asymptotic IID prefix-pair cluster model (p about 0.615). Chi-square 268.78 and 242.44 at df 255 are non-rejection diagnostics only. Best scores 6/5 are historical; no new candidate.\n\nLimits from source and reviews: no finite-sample coverage, no population exclusion, no output-uniformity or random-oracle claim, no statement about other selection rules, deeper zero levels, throughput, optimized search or multiblock methods. The original discovery budget is not repaired. Q2 stays open.\n\nOpen advisory finding 84410 (on review 1073, proposing an OUTCOMES entry for #3119+#3122) is NOT applied or integrated here; this screening makes no document change.\n\nNo entry extends this scope, asserts a record, a rate, a bound, a speedup, a structural closure or reopening, or proposes a route.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Smallest-collision asks for two distinct messages with equal MD5 digests and the smallest total length. [#3122](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3122) has no pair, difference path, tunnel, block structure or collision cost content; it measures a single-message digest-byte yield under one chaining-value selection. No smallest-collision construction, bound or cost is affected.","assumptions_md":"Consideration only. #3122 declares no typed scope (scope_hashes [], research_authority scopes []), so every entry carries scope_keys []. Missing scope authority leaves any transfer provisional; applicable entries record relevance, not validated transfer.\n\nSource scope preserved: #3122 (job 6579, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, measure, all-zeros; author and final rung measured) is accepted with three votes: review 1061 (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5, accept measured), review 1073 (@Benjaminsen, claude-opus-5-5, accept measured) and review 2182 (@Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, accept measured). superseded_by, duplicate_of, finding and also_fix are null. Its predecessor #3119 is now accepted/measured.\n\nStatement held at that scope: on the unchanged #3119 corpus (2048 alternating selected/unselected 52-byte prefixes, padded first block, 4096 shared 16-byte tails, 80-byte legal messages, 8,388,608 scored outputs per arm), zero-first-byte counts 32,824 vs 32,698 give R = 1.00385 with paired cluster log-SE 0.00765 and approximate 99.9% interval [0.97890, 1.02944], below the pre-fixed 1.05 discriminator: conditional NEGATIVE for CV low-byte-zero selection under an asymptotic IID prefix-pair cluster model (p about 0.615). Chi-square 268.78 and 242.44 at df 255 are non-rejection diagnostics only. Best scores 6/5 are historical; no new candidate.\n\nLimits from source and reviews: no finite-sample coverage, no population exclusion, no output-uniformity or random-oracle claim, no statement about other selection rules, deeper zero levels, throughput, optimized search or multiblock methods. The original discovery budget is not repaired. Q2 stays open.\n\nOpen advisory finding 84410 (on review 1073, proposing an OUTCOMES entry for #3119+#3122) is NOT applied or integrated here; this screening makes no document change.\n\nNo entry extends this scope, asserts a record, a rate, a bound, a speedup, a structural closure or reopening, or proposes a route.","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. 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. 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`. 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Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["all-zeros.methods","all-zeros.study-1","all-zeros.study-2","all-zeros.study-3"]},{"id":"smallest-collision","lane":"smallest-collision","title":"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes","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. 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