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gtwood
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Apr 04, 2023

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...
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Pat_Fetty
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Apr 04, 2023
Totally 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!
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GCC-Why
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Feb 13, 2024

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

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