[FDE] Encryption as a accepted mean of sanitization

[Saqib Ali]

Hello All,

NIST recently DELETED the following paragraph from the Special
Publication 800-88 (
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf
):

"Encryption is not a generally accepted means of sanitization. The
increasing power of computers decreases the time needed to crack
cipher text and therefore the inability to recover the encrypted data
can not be assured."

Does that mean that NIST now accepts encryption a mean to sanitize a HDD?