----- Original Message -----
From: "Sim. Ja." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: [ASN.1] BER: minimum number of bytes?


> Hi folk,
>
> I hope, you could confirm this statement.
> Given an element description as below
> cug-Index                 [17] IMPLICIT INTEGER ( 0 .. 32767 ) OPTIONAL,
>
> if the value to be encoded is 0x0a, which needs only one byte in BER,
> I must use one byte for a minimum encoding.

I don't think you can encode above in one byte. You need three bytes for BER
(91 01 0A) and two for PER (00 0A). Also, your value range is between 0 and
32767, which can't fit in one byte for all the possible values.

Rajul

> Thanks in advance
> Simin
>
> PS: The alternative is to see the space reserved for this value as always
> two bytes.
>
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