title: C# FIPS 140-2 Encryption
body: <p>I got tasked with coming up with a way to change our company's data library to be FIPS 140-2 compliant.  We're primarily a microsoft shop and currently have a crypto library leveraging RijndealManaged to perform our encryption/decryption.  There are multiple environments involved, so whatever solution I come up with would require encryption/decryption of the same message to happen on independent machines (So I dont think I can use the .net libraries like AESCryptoProvider which relies on the OS)</p>
  
  <p>I don't have a deep understanding or background in cryptography but off the research that I've done to this point, I know that AES is still a FIPS 140-2 compliant algorithm.  My question is: is there is an updated .NET AES Managed module that I could use across these environments to be FIPS 140-2 compliant?  Does the AESManaged module just require me to configure it in a particular way (i.e. 256 key size and 128 block size) in order be FIPS compliant?  </p>
  
  <p>I can't use third party libraries.  </p>