000033820 - Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) support for the RSA NetWitness Endpoint UI installed on a different host

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Article Number000033820
Applies ToRSA Product Set: NetWitness Endpoint, ECAT
RSA Product/Service Type: User Interface
RSA Version/Condition: 4.4.x, 4.3.x
Platform: Windows
 
IssueAfter installing the RSA NetWitness Endpoint UI on a machine that is not hosting the ECAT Console server, when attempting to connect to the Console Server, the following unhandled exception error occurs:
 
 



2016-01-18 11:12:24.336 1 System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. 
   ---> System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.
   at System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider..ctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoConfig.CreateFromName(String name, Object[] args)
   at System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create()
   at DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.ImagesComparer.GetHashString(Byte[] arrayToHash)
   at DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.ImagesComparer.AreEqual(Image imageA, Image imageB)
   at DevExpress.XtraEditors.Repository.RepositoryItemPictureEdit.set_InitialImage(Image value)
   at ECatUI.Configurations.DbConnection.DatabaseConnectionForm.InitializeComponent()
   at ECatUI.Configurations.DbConnection.DatabaseConnectionForm..ctor(Boolean aConnectAutomatically, Boolean aAllowConnect)
   at ECatUI.Program.Main(String[] args)
2016-08-18 11:23:06.984 1 8/18/2016 11:23:06 AM: Application is terminated



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CauseThis error occurs because the Windows machine has been FIPS enabled.  At present there is no support for the RSA NetWitness Endpoint UI to run on FIPS enabled systems.
 
ResolutionThis issue is being investigated by the Engineering team in order to provide a permanent resolution in a future release.

FIPS support is on the road-map for future versions of RSA NetWitness Endpoint.
WorkaroundInstall NetWitness Endpoint UI on a non-FIPS enabled Windows system.
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