Greg McGuffey

I did a bit more digging and FIPS (a US government security standard standard enforced at OS level) does not allow MD5. Here is a SO article on alternatives: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4893180/99559....

Good idea. I'll look into that. It will be easy to provide a command line option to choose a hashing algorithm when . I'm not sure how to deal with...

After doing a bunch more research, I've learned that FIPS disables MD5. Or more specifically, you set a security policy that .NET checks. If it is enabled, it won't run...

I forked the repo (https://github.com/gregmcguffey/LibZ-FIPS) and made some changes that allow it to be FIPS compliant. Our use case was pretty simple and it has been working well for a...