Bug report: To Base 16, From Hex and To Hex give same outputs for different inputs

[pacorrop]

Describe the bug
The title is self explanatory.

To Reproduce
For an input of 512 the output is incorrectly 0x2000 https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Base(16)From_Hex('Auto')To_Hex('Space',0)&input=NTEy
For an input of 8192 the output is correctly 0x2000 https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Base(16)From_Hex('Auto')To_Hex('Space',0)&input=ODE5Mg

Expected behaviour
512 in hex is 02 00, not 20 00

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[mikecat]

You can mitigate this by adding an operation to add a padding zero if the data has odd number of digits.

To Base, Find / Replace, From Hex, To Hex - CyberChef

[pacorrop]

Thanks for your prompt reply!

Whereas this works, it does not look good. Just showing an idempotent function like From Hex and then To Hex gives also zero padding issues:
From Hex -> To Hex. Input 032f, output is 03 2f (correc): https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Hex('Auto')To_Hex('Space',0)&input=MDMyZg
From Hex -> To Hex. Input 32f, output is 32 0f (for some reason, the 0 is padded at the lsb): https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Hex('Auto')To_Hex('Space',0)&input=MzJm

Using regex expressions to solve this is a bit of overwhelming as a user. Maybe insert this regex function on the affected function (From Hex, To Hex) in the backend?

[mikecat]

"To/From Base" is for converting presentation of integers.
"To/From Hex" is for encoding/decoding bytes as hexadeximal strings.

I don't think it is good for "To Base" to add an extra (trailing) zero by default.
Also, if "To Hex" were changed to emit "32 f" for this latter case, it will also output "32 f" for an input "320f" and the output becomes differ from the input.

If you want identical output as input, I think it is good not to apply any operations.

[pacorrop]

I see. You are right, I did not know the formatting of any step and indeed the regex step does the job.

Thanks for your work!