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gtwood
Apr 04, 2023Copper Contributor
Win32 Content Prep tool doesn't work with FIPS mode
This issue on GitHub has been languishing unacknowledged for the past three years. Since the elder days of yore, the Win32 Content Prep tool - the only option for deploying non-MSI applications t...
matt-defcert
Apr 04, 2023Copper Contributor
We have been doing that in the meantime with some customers and its not an ideal solution especially for the smaller ones that don't have crazy amounts of extra hardware lying around. But it would be really nice in the future if this could get fixed so that there is less usability issues for small defense contractors struggling to get set up on GCC High Intune/Endpoint Manager for their Windows endpoints.
Pat_Fetty
Microsoft
Apr 04, 2023Totally understand. Customers can use a VM to run the tool, which isn't an additional cost and shouldn't be too much of a burden, but I totally hear your feedback. It's a matter of priorities and resources for our Gov work, and right now, getting parity with commercial is a very high priority for us at the moment!
- GCC-WhyFeb 13, 2024Copper Contributor
I think what's frustrating is that changing the hash library is a quick fix that has been ignored for years. There is a GitHub repo with no source. If the source was there, customers could patch the problem themselves and that wouldn't take your resources away from other efforts.
https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-Tool/issues/120