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Bug 25622 - Use RangeError instead of QuotaExceededError
Summary: Use RangeError instead of QuotaExceededError
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Web Cryptography
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Cryptography API Document (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ryan Sleevi
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Reported: 2014-05-09 00:29 UTC by Ryan Sleevi
Modified: 2014-06-02 00:53 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan Sleevi 2014-05-09 00:29:05 UTC 
Raised during the W3C TAG review ( https://github.com/w3ctag/spec-reviews/issues/3#issuecomment-41521737 )
Comment 1 Ryan Sleevi 2014-06-02 00:53:37 UTC 
I'm going to close this as WontFix, for two reasons:

1) This is documenting an existing, implemented behaviour in a number of UAs that dates back to 2011

2) The choice of Quota over Range was made to prevent callers from draining the entropy pool, which is a concept specific to certain cryptographically strong random number generators. In this regard, Quota (as in, a fixed resource) seems more appropriate than Range (as in, exceeding an index)