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Detecting if FIPS is being enforced via .NET C#

Is there a way to determine from the .NET framework whether or not the FIPS policy is being enforced on the windows computer?

Solution

  • You can use this code to check whether FIPS is enabled or not:

    public static object getKey(string Name)
{
    RegistryKey uac = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FIPSAlgorithmPolicy", true);
    if (uac == null)
    {
        uac = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FIPSAlgorithmPolicy");
    }
    return uac.GetValue(Name);
}

    Just pass "Enabled" key into it and it will return 1 or 0 based on the enabled or disabled.