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Crypto IOS image ?
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Just a quick question, what is the REAL difference bewteen IOS image and Crypto IOS image ? Which one is better?
Thank you.
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Just a quick question, what is the REAL difference bewteen IOS image and Crypto IOS image ?Which one is better?
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OptionsDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□some one correct me if i am wrong, but I don't belive there is any difference in licencing between the two.
however some countries (such as China as the first that comes to mind) do not in many cases allow encrypted traffic. To meet export laws to these countries they have to remove these features.
I would always go for Crypto as it allows SSH , and encrypting management traffic can never be a bad thing.- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505however some countries (such as China as the first that comes to mind) do not in many cases allow encrypted traffic. To meet export laws to these countries they have to remove these features.
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OptionsDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□You're allowed crypto in China. What are the cryptographic policies of some countries?
China
China is one of the countries with the strongest restrictions on cryptography; a license is required for export, import, or domestic use of any cryptography product. There are several restrictions on export regulations, and China is not participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement.
Allowed yes, but not unless you are licenced..- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Allowed yes, but not unless you are licenced..
There are countries with even more restrictions than China.
At one point you couldn't export strong crypto at all from the US but they've relaxed those restrictions mostly now except for a specific list of countries. -
OptionsDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□But this is all missing the point.
encryption tecnoligies are subject to inport/export and domestic regulation. So any device capable of running them are subject to these same regulations.
So to answer the origianl question a Crypto image has the encryption technologies built in. where as a non crypto image does not. (no encryption of managemnt traffic, no encryption of any data sent to or from the device)
If you are not regulated by the encryption laws (And most people in the US or Europe, as well as many other countries are not) then you want to get the crypto image.
But the above is the only difference. Can it encrypt data or can it not, all other features between a crypto and no crypto image reamin the same. (assuming you are looking at IOS images from the same feature set)- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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OptionsCiskHo Member Posts: 188So to answer the origianl question a Crypto image has the encryption technologies built in. where as a non crypto image does not. (no encryption of managemnt traffic, no encryption of any data sent to or from the device)If you are not regulated by the encryption laws (And most people in the US or Europe, as well as many other countries are not) then you want to get the crypto image....all other features between a crypto and no crypto image reamin the same. (assuming you are looking at IOS images from the same feature set)My Lab Gear:
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