Zeroization

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A method of erasing electronically stored data, cryptographic keys, and Credentials Service Providers (CSPs) by altering or deleting the contents of the data storage to prevent recovery of the data.

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Zeroizations
possessive: Zeroization's
pluralpossessive: Zeroizations'

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