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 September, 2006 - The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new National Guidelines for Electronic Media Destruction. These guidelines establish for the first time the standard which governs electronic media destruction. CD-ROM and DVD media must be ground to 250 micron particle sizes to comply with the new federal standard.
Click on the following link for the official document.
The following is extracted from NIST Special Publication 800-88:
Errata
The following changes have been incorporated into Special Publication 800-88
Date 09-11-06
Version 10-06
Change
Deleted “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.”
Page Number 7
Date 09-11-06
Version 10-06
Change
Changed “Surface area of five millimeters” to “Use optical disk media shredders or disintegrator devices to reduce to particles that have a nominal edge dimensions of five millimeters (5 mm) and surface area of twenty-five square millimeters (25 mm2).”
Page Number 21
Date 09-11-06
Version 10-06
Change
Changed “Surface area of five millimeters” to “Use optical disk media shredders or disintegrator devices to reduce to particles that have a nominal edge dimensions of five millimeters (5 mm) and surface area of twenty-five square millimeters (25 mm2).”
Page Number 22
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