[BushCountry]

The man is either a stupid fool or writer has it wrong. No encryption software exists today that the government can’t break in a few days with their massively parallel arrayed decryption computers.

[dangus]

If 1.4 gb is 1000 times larger than the previous release, that’d mean that the previous release was only 1.4 MB... small enough to fit on an old-fashioned (1980s) floppy drive.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Here is a great article about how long it would take to crack a password, using "brute force"

[Grut]

The man is either a stupid fool or writer has it wrong. No encryption software exists today that the government can’t break in a few days with their massively parallel arrayed decryption computers.

Maybe. But suppose all that's in there is random numbers: could a government that wanted to move against Assange be sure it was that, and not data that their decryption efforts had failed to read?

[billybudd]

I take it you haven’t studied encryption.

[oldbrowser]

The man is either a stupid fool or writer has it wrong. No encryption software exists today that the government can’t break in a few days with their massively parallel arrayed decryption computers.

The government does not want this information to fall into the hands of our enemies. Anyone with a copy of the file and the key can release the decoded information on the internet.