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CE

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

cryptographic erase

NIST SP 800-88r2

Cryptographic Erase

Definitions:

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

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