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FIPS Compliance for MD5CryptoServiceProvider

Any ideas why MD5CryptoServiceProvider is not throwing a FIPS compliance error. I am using Win7 and 3.5. The MS documentation says that it does not comply with FIPS, but I am not getting an exception, as I was with some other algorithms.

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I get a FIPS exception from the console application, but not the ASP.Net application

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The website may have disabled FIPS checking using something like this in web.config:

<configuration>
    <runtime>
        <enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false"/>
    </runtime>
</configuration>

Do you have the same behavior when running an application on an ASP.NET or IIS development web server?

: forceceFIPSPolicy web.config, , -

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