To Hex Content

Category: Encoding

Status: Registered and callable in the CyberChef 11.3.0 compatibility inventory.

Input / output: ArrayBuffer → string

Background: http://manual-snort-org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/node32.html#SECTION00451000000000000000

What it does

Converts special characters in a string to hexadecimal. This format is used by SNORT for representing hex within ASCII text. e.g. foo=bar becomes foo|3d|bar.

Note

Status here means the operation name is implemented and callable. It does not by itself promise byte-for-byte parity for every upstream option. See Compatibility and current status for the verified scope and known boundaries.

Arguments and options

Arguments are positional. Keep their order when using bake() or Pipeline.then().

Index	Name	UI type	PyChef default	Accepted values / format
`0`	Convert	`option`	`'Only special chars'`	`'Only special chars'`, `'Only special chars including spaces'`, `'All chars'`
`1`	Print spaces between bytes	`boolean`	`False`	`True` or `False`

Recipe template

Important

This is a call template built from the documented defaults. Replace placeholder values such as empty keys, paths, patterns, or lookup data before running it.

from pychef import bake

input_value = b"example"
args = ['Only special chars', False]
result = bake(input_value, [{"op": 'To Hex Content', "args": args}])
print(result)

Pipeline example

from pychef import Pipeline

args = ['Only special chars', False]
transform = Pipeline().then('To Hex Content', *args)
result = transform(b"example")

Dedicated operation module

The registered entry point lives in pychef.operations.by_operation.to_hex_content. Direct calls receive the input value and a positional argument tuple:

from pychef.operations.by_operation.to_hex_content import run

result = run(b"example", tuple(['Only special chars', False]))

pychef.operations.by_operation.to_hex_content.run(value, args)

Run this operation using its shared internal implementation.

Parameters:

value (str | bytes)
args (Sequence[Any])

Return type:

str | bytes