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WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to Web
Yahoo ^ | July 5, 2010 | Rapahel Satter

Posted on 08/05/2010 5:04:07 PM PDT by redhead

LONDON – Online whistle-blower WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file named "Insurance" to its website, sparking speculation that those behind the organization may be prepared to release more classified information if authorities interfere with them.

At 1.4 gigabytes, the file is 20 times larger than the batch of 77,000 secret U.S. military documents about Afghanistan that WikiLeaks dumped onto the Web last month, and cryptographers say that the file is virtually impossible to crack — unless WikiLeaks releases the key used to encode the material.

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To: darkwing104
Obama doesn't have the cahonees to order such a mission.

Do spooks always wait for orders?

41 posted on 08/05/2010 6:22:07 PM PDT by cayuga (Can the US survive an electorate stupid enough to send 0bama to the White House?)
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To: redhead

More on Manning

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/aug/01/ed-beres01-ar-356184/


42 posted on 08/05/2010 6:22:07 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: redhead

Hope it’s encrypted with 128 bit AES. 256bit, and nobody will crach it for a few billion years without some quantum systems breakthrough.


43 posted on 08/05/2010 6:24:37 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: VanDeKoik

LOL! I recognize that as the unlock code for the Nintenda Contra game.


44 posted on 08/05/2010 6:27:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Satan is a Democrat and Obama is his minion.)
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To: redhead

What happened to “The need to know”?


45 posted on 08/05/2010 6:36:57 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: StolarStorm
Which means that some 15 year old kid will crack it by next week

PGP is uncrackable even by the CIA/NSA. I doubt some 15 year old is gonna crack it.

46 posted on 08/05/2010 6:38:07 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: redhead

I miss Reagan. These releases would have stopped immediately after the computer and person who did it disappeared.


47 posted on 08/05/2010 6:38:33 PM PDT by Azeem (The world will look up and shout "Save us!"... And I'll whisper "No.")
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To: bushpilot1

Good point. WikiLeaks prides itself in the Clinton imposed FOIAct.


48 posted on 08/05/2010 6:41:37 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: VanDeKoik

Castlevania: unlimited hearts, unlimited lives, all weapons. Yeah I was a vampire nut in my early days.


49 posted on 08/05/2010 6:42:36 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Soothesayer9

Yeah well maybe the youngin that cracked Palin’s e-mails :)


50 posted on 08/05/2010 6:43:31 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: redhead

Pvt. manning is not a natural born citizen.


51 posted on 08/05/2010 6:44:06 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: Soothesayer9

I miss castlevania. That’s the swinging ropes dude right?


52 posted on 08/05/2010 6:44:44 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: red-dawg

If it’s encoded as claimed, breaking it would be bigger news than whatever is in the file.
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“Cryptographers say that the file was likely made using a 256-bit encryption standard known as AES256, which the U.S. government and others employ to mask some of their most sensitive data.

“It is widely viewed as extremely strong,” said crypotgraphy pioneer Whitfield Diffie, of Britain’s Royal Holloway College. He said there were no known instances of anyone being able to beat the standard.

Kocher, of Cryptography Research, agreed, saying that the only conceivable way anyone outside of WikiLeaks could decode “Insurance” was if Assange and his colleagues had used a blatantly obvious password or experienced some kind of “catastrophic algorithm error.”

“We’re not going to find out what’s in that file unless somebody reveals the key,” Kocher said.”


53 posted on 08/05/2010 6:47:15 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Wondering if manning had access to a STU system, did he make calls on it while the key was active and where did he make the calls?


54 posted on 08/05/2010 6:47:29 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: red-dawg
I think you misunderstood. Spooks to take down Wikileaks, not help them. The Good Shepard...Mother, to help these guys disapear.
55 posted on 08/05/2010 6:49:39 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: bushpilot1
He was born in Oklahoma.


56 posted on 08/05/2010 6:49:56 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: bushpilot1

Not a clue. All’s I heard was vague news reports that he sent files docs something from his aircraft. As nuts as that sounds I think that is what I heard.


57 posted on 08/05/2010 6:50:06 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: redhead

This stuff needs to stop, and ~right now~.

People are being killed because of this douchebag. This smarmy little twerp has blood on his hands. It’s time for his head to suddenly disappear in a cloud of red mist.


58 posted on 08/05/2010 6:51:07 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: ltc8k6
If an Intelligence Agency did break the code they would never reveal it.


59 posted on 08/05/2010 6:53:27 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: darkwing104

Being born in Oklahoma alone does not make one a natural born citizen. It takes two citizen parents.


60 posted on 08/05/2010 6:54:01 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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