Is there an alternate hashing algorithm to MD5 for FIPS-enabled systems?

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qazwsx picture qazwsx · Feb 4, 2011 · Viewed 16.2k times · Source

Whenever I try to use MD5 on a Windows XP machine that has FIPS enabled, I am getting a System.InvalidOperationException.

Is there an alternate algorithm that I should use instead of MD5 on FIPS?

Answer

Borja picture Borja · Feb 4, 2011

MD5 is not FIPS compliant. You can use instead of the MD5 one of the following hashing algorithms:

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