Wikileaks Just Released A Massive 'Insurance' File - That No One Can Open

Anti-secrecy organization Wikileaks just released a treasure trove of files, that at least for now, you can't read.

The group, which has been assisting ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden after leaking classified documents, posted about 400 gigabytes' of files to their Facebook page Saturday, and asked their fans to download and mirror them elsewhere.

Here's the cryptic post:

You can download the files via torrent but since they are encrypted — and Wikileaks has not yet provided the key — you won't be able to open them.

We can garner at least one thing of note from the file names alone: they probably have a very high level of encryption. The end of the files, "aes256", likely stands for Advanced Encryption Standard-256 bits.

It's a way of locking up your files that even the NSA has approved for use on top secret data.

What's in the files is anyone's guess for now, although Aja Romano at The Daily Dot expanded upon some of the possibilities:

The size of one of the files is 349 gigabytes, which means that there's either A) enough textual data inside to power a nationwide security crisis for the next 300 years or so, or B) a few very incriminating pieces of video footage.

"I'm getting the feeling these people are spreading some serious material," commented Facebook onlooker Angel Gabriell.

"WikiLeaks releases encrypted versions of upcoming publication data ('insurance') from time to time to nullify attempts at prior restraint," the organization also wrote in a tweet.