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 <>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 7:55 AM
To: Larry Golding (Comcast) <>; ; Michael Fanning <>
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
>
