On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM Rob Sayre <say...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 1:26 PM David Benjamin <david...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think sometimes we spend a little more energy than is actually useful
>> in figuring out these implied lower bounds. :-) In practice, the only
>> decision we actually care about is whether 0 is allowed, and even then it's
>> often irrelevant (like here).
>>
>
> FWIW, I find these really confusing in TLS notation.
>
> I usually end up checking what NSS or OpenSSL does to get the answer. So,
> I don't think there's an operational problem, but it could be better.
>

I just mentally replace all non-zero minimums to 1 when reading. I can't
think of any structure where a non-zero minimum value was not just some
attempt to figure out the minimum possible byte count of a single object.

David
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