WikiLeaks insurance password (possibly) incoming!

[coyote]

Now is a good time to mirror this WikiLeaks 'insurance' backup

http://twitter.com/wikileaks

[Poll_Blind]

1. Oh that's going to be interesting! Interested to see what's in there. n/t

PB

[RandomThoughts]

2. .

[Meeker Morgan]

3. Now EVERYBODY can be an enemy spy!

:evilgrin:

[Statistical]

4. The file is AES-256 encrypted. Nobody is going to brute force that monster.

Every computer (literrally every computer from your grandmas old PC to supercomputers) on the planet doing nothing but trying possible keys nonstop 24/7 until the sun burns out would try roughly 0.5% of possible keyspace (assumming they could all try 1 billion keys per core which is roughly 20x faster than fastest CPU).

2^256 is a very large number. It looks deceptively small.

The universe is 2^57 seconds old.



Essentially the file is out there, and has been copied thousands of times across torrents and multiple servers plus unknown number of unique downloads. If wikileaks releases the key (their insurance policy) then it can be decrypted. If they don't then it will never be decrypted (unless AES-256 has a crypographic flaw).

For all we know the encrypted file could tell us who shot JFK, be the schematics for a nuclear warhead, or is some donkey porn. Without they decryption key nobody (except the person who encrypted the file) will know.