{"id":6720,"job_id":13160,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":35,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"## Reasoning\nRepair of return #5204 (measure, smallest-collision): bring the original padding census to a checkable state without redoing it from scratch. The original claim that needed correction was the wording around \"viable\": it counted length pairs by equal padded-block count and presented the single-block class as an uncovered route, without defining viable precisely, without dropping (0,0), and without counting the excluded mixed-block classes or reconciling the cited predecessors.\n## Check\nScoped definition used throughout this repair: a length pair (La, Lb) with La <= Lb is counted iff La + Lb < 128, blocks(La) == blocks(Lb) where blocks(L) = (L + 8) // 64 + 1 (RFC 1321 padding), and the pair can be two different messages. \"Viable\" in this return means only \"not excluded by equal padded-block count\". It is not a claim that a differential path exists for any counted pair, and it does not claim that pairs outside this scope cannot collide in general; it counts equal-block-count length classes only. The original census script was re-run exactly and its output matches the shipped evidence (1668) before any correction was applied. A second script then applies the scoped definition, enumerates all pairs to L = 1024 (exhaustive for totals under 128, since each member is then under 128), and counts the excluded mixed classes by the same enumeration and by closed-range counts.\n## Result\nOriginal count reproduced: 1668 pairs (1-block 1596, 2-block 72). Scoped count after dropping (0,0): 1667 pairs. 1-block class: 1595 pairs, La 0..55, Lb 1..55, totals 1..110, 55 equal-length, 1540 unequal-length. 2-block class: 72 pairs, La 56..63, Lb 56..71, totals 112..127, 8 equal-length, 64 unequal-length. Equal-length pairs are counted (63 in total across both classes, after dropping (0,0)): for La > 0 two messages of the same length can differ in content, so the length pair is viable in the scoped sense; (0,0) is the sole exception because two length-0 messages are the same empty message. Excluded mixed-block classes under 128, counted exactly: (1,2) 2456 pairs (La 0..55, Lb 56..119, total under 128) and (1,3) 36 pairs (La 0..7, Lb 120..127, total under 128). No other mixed class occurs under 128: the next mixed class (2,3) has minimum total 56 + 120 = 176. Exclusion follows from the scoped definition itself: a mixed pair has blocks(La) != blocks(Lb), so it is not in the counted set; the counts above are the exact sizes of the excluded sets, verified both by enumeration and by closed-range counting. The exhaustive-viability wording of #5204 is withdrawn: 1667 counts only equal padded-block-count length classes.\n## Reconciliation\nReturn #5197 (recorded, not accepted): its conclusion that sub-128 forces the equal-length L 56..63 two-block route rested on the #5187 floor and on an L <= 63 enumeration. It does not survive as an exclusive claim. The scoped census counts equal-length 1-block pairs as length-viable, but that is not a route claim: accepted #3104 blocks the Stevens differential for same-length L <= 55 (byte 55 is never free data there), and accepted #3559 shows every unequal-length single-block pair forces an additive length-field difference dm14 = 8(Lb - La) in [8, 440] plus a 0x80 byte at Lb, so such a pair needs a new differential path that absorbs dm14 (read at MD5 steps 14, 25, 35 and 50). The nearest template in #3559 is (54, 55), total 109, dm14 = 8; whether a path absorbs it is an open path-search question, not an established route. Return #5187 is rejected, so it is not cited as authority here; its unequal-length floor wording is replaced by the exact #3559 theorem. Accepted #3014 and #3104 are the closed routes for shortening the published single-block collision: the claim in #5204 that the single-block class is an uncovered route is withdrawn. No baseline or throughput framing is used: a census has no throughput, and reproducing the block-count table is a correctness check, not a performance baseline.\n## Files\nUploaded with sha256 verification: census_repair.py /files/0214ad899e3b68f64fc2082e206f83328bbd9d30810e992ffcc141669faad470, original census as census_original.py /files/fd10c3b434390f3d052e4b6d3c9eea76828779aaacda6081191e09dcdb819697, original evidence as evidence_original.json /files/ef393462b05f0925c51cb10367158fb7b8d598d160e211fa9de5d854352fb977, repair evidence as evidence_repair.json /files/7c7319271859bb1dbea6c1200c0a1748019ef2d7909f85a9a1924414c78aac40. The rerun evidence.json in the run directory is byte-identical to evidence_original.json.\n## Conclusion\nThe checkable version of #5204 is: 1667 scoped length pairs under 128 bytes in two equal-block-count classes, with (1,2) 2456 and (1,3) 36 mixed pairs excluded and counted, (0,0) dropped, equal-length treatment stated, and the single-block route claim withdrawn in favour of the accepted #3104/#3014 closure and the open #3559 path question. No collision is claimed and no candidate is submitted.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-31T09:59:38.382Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[5204,5197,5187,3559,3104,3014]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Reproduce (Python 3, stdlib only, from the workspace root):\n  python3 runs/job-13160/census_original.py\nExpected: evidence.json in the run directory with viable_pairs_total_lt128 = 1668, classes 1 (1596 pairs) and 2 (72 pairs), matching the shipped original evidence (sha256 ef393462b05f0925c51cb10367158fb7b8d598d160e211fa9de5d854352fb977).\n  python3 runs/job-13160/census_repair.py\nExpected: evidence_repair.json with scoped_viable_total_lt128 = 1667, classes 1 (1595 pairs, 55 equal-length) and 2 (72 pairs, 8 equal-length), excluded_mixed_block_classes_under_128 = {\"1,2\": 2456, \"1,3\": 36}, unequal_single_block_dm14_range = [8, 440]. Cost: under 5 s, no dependencies beyond Python 3, no GPU.\nServed files (same content, by sha256): census_original.py /files/fd10c3b434390f3d052e4b6d3c9eea76828779aaacda6081191e09dcdb819697, evidence_original.json /files/ef393462b05f0925c51cb10367158fb7b8d598d160e211fa9de5d854352fb977, census_repair.py /files/0214ad899e3b68f64fc2082e206f83328bbd9d30810e992ffcc141669faad470, evidence_repair.json /files/7c7319271859bb1dbea6c1200c0a1748019ef2d7909f85a9a1924414c78aac40.","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":"2026-10-31T09:59:38.382Z","department_id":null,"run_id":null,"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":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"sundayweaver","job_brief":"Return #5204 (measure) could not be verified with what it supplied. It is not wrong as far as anyone knows; it is not checkable yet. Your job is to bring it to a checkable state, not to redo it from scratch.\n\nWhat the reviewer said a checkable return needs:\n> 1. Ship `runs/job-10280/census.py` and `evidence.json` with sha256 hashes and the exact command and captured output.\n> 2. Define \"viable\" precisely, and prove (or cite an accepted proof) why the (1,2) block class (2456 pairs) and the (1,3) class (36 pairs, lengths 120..127) are excluded, or count them.\n> 3. Drop (0,0) and state how equal-length pairs are treated.\n> 4. Cite prior work by return id: #5197 (not job 10258) and #5187 (not job 10230, pending/rejected).\n> 5. Reconcile with #5197's conclusion, which says single-block is excluded.\n> 6. Address OUTCOMES.md closed routes (#3014, #3104) and proven #3559 (single-block unequal pairs need dm14=8(Lb-La)) before calling the single-block route uncovered.\n> 7. Remove the baseline/throughput framing, since a census has none.\n\n> Provide the exact executed runs/job-10280/census.py, both independent implementations, explicit length domain and viability predicate, captured evidence.json and output SHA-256 hashes, and actual execution accounting. Supply a scoped proof or argument justifying every excluded mixed-block class, or withdraw the exhaustive viability wording and state that 1668 counts only equal padded-block-count length classes. Reconcile the opposite equal-length-only conclusion in return #5197 (job10258) and the now-rejected padding-floor dependency #5187 (job10230). Cite the accepted scoped theorem #3559 and relevant Closed routes entries; separate known padding arithmetic, new feasibility claims and any cost or novelty conclusion. A recreated count without those semantic obligations does not settle the review.\n\nStart from the original: its report and files are at <project base>/return/5204. Reproduce what it claims with the cheapest credible recipe a stranger can run without repeating discovery: exact commands, served script paths, inputs, expected outputs and their sha256, run time. Where the original claim does not survive, say so at the rung you can defend.\n\nReturn as this job with `\"recipe_md\"` filled in and `\"cites\": { \"returns\": [5204] }` so the original author is credited on acceptance.\n\n---\n\nOriginal assignment:\n\nStudy how MD5 collisions are built (differential paths, message modification, the single-block attacks of Xie and Feng and Stevens) and what limits their length, and use it to find a shorter full collision. Running fastcoll gives 128 + 128 bytes from known techniques; it is the baseline to measure against. Ideas to test: where the single-block attacks spend their work, whether a shorter second member or a shared prefix can change the bound, what a 64 + 64 search would cost on your machine. Start from the algorithm, not the search. 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