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CE

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

cryptographic erase
Cryptographic Erase

Definitions:

  A method of sanitization in which the media encryption key (MEK) for the encrypted Target Data is sanitized, making recovery of the decrypted Target Data infeasible.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 under cryptographic erase

  A purge sanitization technique in which key sanitization is applied to one or more keys providing confidentiality protections for the encrypted target data, making recovery of the decrypted target data infeasible.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-88r2 under cryptographic erase