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cryptographic erasure
A method for rendering encrypted data unrecoverable by securely deleting the keying material required to decrypt the data.
The encrypted data itself is not modified. The protection offered by cryptographic erasure is bounded by the work factor involved in discovering the decryption key or mounting a cryptanalytic attack on the encryption algorithm itself.
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Data Security