[FDE] Encryption as a accepted mean of sanitization

[Saqib Ali]

The reason I ask this question is because there is a debate going on @
Wikipedia on this topic between user:maxt and user:tngr (don't know
who they are).

See:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Full_disk_encryption ; and
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDE

IT would be nice to have some clarity on this topic.



On 10/2/06, Saqib Ali <docbook.xml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>


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