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While ApiEditPage's md5 parameter isn't used for encryption (it's a checksum of the text being passed), it can cause problems in some applications, especially on Windows when [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standards | FIPS ]] is enabled (side note: even Microsoft don't suggest enabling FIPS unless you really have to), for example as in {T177955} for AWB. It would be useful if there was something else that AWB (and others) could use instead of MD5, to satisfy the cases where people cannot disable it (due to reasons outside their control), but also still allowing this edit text validation/verification to still take place.

While ApiEditPage's md5 parameter isn't used for encryption (it's a checksum of the text being passed), it can cause problems in some applications, especially on Windows when [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standards | FIPS ]] is enabled (side note: even Microsoft don't suggest enabling FIPS unless you really have to), for example as in {T177955} for AWB. It would be useful if there was something else that AWB (and others) could use instead of MD5, to satisfy the cases where people cannot disable FIPS (due to reasons outside their control), but also still allowing this edit text validation/verification to still take place when editing pages.

While ApiEditPage's md5 parameter isn't used for encryption (it's a checksum of the text being passed), it can cause problems in some applications, especially on Windows when [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standards | FIPS ]] is enabled (side note: even Microsoft don't suggest enabling FIPS unless you really have to), for example as in {T177955} for AWB. It would be useful if there was something else that AWB (and others) could use instead of MD5, to satisfy the cases where people cannot disable itFIPS (due to reasons outside their control), but also still allowing this edit text validation/verification to still take place when editing pages.