RE: Leading 0x on hash?

[Michael Fanning <Michael.Fanning@microsoft.com>]

I agree. The 0x prefix is mostly to help differentiate literals in languages/contexts that provide for differing base (10, 16, 8) and not a convention associated with hash function outputs.

-----Original Message-----
From: James A. Kupsch <kupsch@cs.wisc.edu> 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 7:55 AM
To: Larry Golding (Comcast) <larrygolding@comcast.net>; sarif@lists.oasis-open.org; Michael Fanning <Michael.Fanning@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Leading 0x on hash?

I do not think that they should have a leading "0x".  I have never seen a hash value with a leading "0x".  It is a string value and the description describes the meaning for hash functions that produce integer values.

Jim


On 04/20/2018 06:42 PM, Larry Golding (Comcast) wrote:
> Should hex hash digests have a leading "0x"?
> 
> The spec doesn't say. The samples in the spec do /not/ have the 
> leading 0x, and at the moment, the SARIF SDK does not emit the leading 0x either.
> 
> Larry
>