Data Erasure Consultant

Verschlusssachen-IT-Richtlinien (VSITR)

Security

Created by the German Federal Office for IT, the Verschlusssachen-IT-Richtlinien (VSITR) alogrithm involves overwriting data on a device seven times - each of the first six times reversing the order of the bit pattern used. This results in a destabilisation of any data remaining on the storage device. The final pass then overwrites the entire storage device with the pattern '01010101', increasing it's security. This method can be considered a suitably secure erasure method.

Time

This method will take a similar time to the DOD-5220 method