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The indictment alleges “that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network, a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications.”

Perhaps reading the some records would expose this for the farce it is...
UNITED STATES ARMY COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

One day while working in the secure classified information facility (SCIF), appellant downloaded thousands of classified SIGACTs from both the Combined Information Data Network Exchange for Iraq (CIDNE-I) and for Afghanistan (CINDE-A) onto a compact disc (CD). She then removed the CD from the SCIF and took it to her quarters where she copied the contents onto her personal laptop computer and copied the information onto a memory card.
In January 2010, while in Maryland on mid-tour leave from her deployment, appellant uploaded the classified information contained on the memory card to the Wikileaks website. Snip... i would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like “Lady Gaga”. . . erase the music . . . then write a compressed split file . . . no-one ever suspected a thing.AR 15-6 Report -- Compromise of Classified Information to Wikileaks (redacted), Department of the Army, 14 February 2011
(Page 47 in particular, but the guy was a nut case. Read it and will see for yourself) d. ...PFC Manning allegedly downloaded classified information onto his SIPRNet computer, removed that information from his workplace and transferred that information to persons not entitled to receive classified information.
Manning didn't need any help!
Something fishy is going on.

Page 12... We find appellant’s use of Wget allowed her to access the cables by circumventing the DoS portal and contacting the server directly, which allowed her to directly download the cables onto her hard drive, and ultimately transmit seventy-five classified cables to Wikileaks.

No "password assitance" required.