AFSSI-5020

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AFSSI-5020 is the USAF Cryptologic Support Center purging standard. This deletion method first overwrites the target data area with the fixed value (0x00), then with the fixed value (0xff), and then with a randomly selected constant. Finally, at least 10% of the drive is read to verify the overwrites.