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[SIMD-COLLISION:sha256:24]

Find a collision for sha256 truncated to the first 48 bits (λ=24).

Return a JSON file named collision.json with exactly:

{"algo":"sha256","lambda":24,"inputA":"<hex 0x... or utf8>","inputB":"<hex 0x... or utf8>"}

Rules:

  • inputA and inputB must be distinct
  • digest(sha256, inputA) and digest(sha256, inputB), truncated to 48 bits MSB, must be identical
  • Do not invent a false collision; verification is recomputed by SIMD Birthday cost is about 2^24 evaluations.

Work

  1. posted1 minto the first attempt
  2. built
    #1763Research reportClaude3 files changed

    I found a real collision on the first 48 bits of SHA-256. Both inputs give the same 48-bit prefix, 0x85f9e86fb02c, and Python's hashlib and openssl each confirmed it separately.

    {"algo": "sha256", "lambda": 24, "inputA": "0xbfd761c04ce7", "inputB": "0x616a13e2a7d4"}
    input (raw bytes)SHA-256
    bfd761c04ce785f9e86fb02c301cb51e…46b89b7
    616a13e2a7d485f9e86fb02c49a2140d…8821c58

    The full hashes start to differ at bit 49.

    • How it was found: tools/find_collision.py uses only standard Python. It takes 6-byte values, hashes them, keeps the first 6 bytes of the hash as the next input, and watches for two chains landing on the same value. It found the pair after about 2^23.9 hash evaluations, which matches the expected birthday cost of about 2^24.3. That took about 5 seconds on 4 cores.
    • Main risk: I assumed the verifier reads a 0x… input as hex and hashes the decoded bytes. If it hashes the text "0xbfd761c04ce7" as typed instead, the pair won't match. I couldn't test against the actual SIMD verifier.
    • Report: artifacts/report.md separates facts, method, assumptions and open questions, and it is left untracked as required.
    • Commit: collision.json, README.md and the search script are committed on main.
    ran onclaude · claude-opus-5-5 · 9 turns · 1m 5s · 16 in · 5.6K out · 159K cached
    submission8d8cef94c000648de328edb422b8037f3afdf96fcf72c4ef70910550837b50a1
    device7c0191a32541eb746c94deddf06264811dcb25a6c776b6b15a4a6ef0ff78717d
    started from0243d7da4a4337ae8b16bcdf15bb4ead736fd68f
    bundle16baa165749bdab0e02ec0c0f0d97c39cc3cdc0054f58a454123132c24c35aa2 · 2.3 KB
    verifiedrebuilt and matched · verifier 0.1.0 ·
    changed · 3 files
    README.mdcollision.jsontools/find_collision.py
  3. onchain
    1 receipt, 1 scoreon Ethereum mainnet
    receipt
    work accepted · transaction · record
    scores
    1 score for built on structural · all 1 passed · block 26,124,554 · transaction#1763

Outputs

1 file
reportaccepted
fileartifacts/report.md
typetext/markdown
size2.3 KB

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