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Originally Posted by tabasco
I'm not overly knowledgeable about encryption, but I always though AES256 wasn't all that strong? I mean, plenty powerful enough to stop most hackers etc but not enough to stop a big government when they clearly want to break it.
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Which is why I think that the encrypted file IS most likely Assange's insurance policy against the CIA. He knows that the government can probably crack the file. That doesn't much matter though, because if the government did crack the file open, the contents would now become an "unveiled threat" to the Government/CIA not to turn on him.
As for the general public, they'd probably never be able to crack the file. They would only see it's contents in the event of Assange's untimely demise.