downloading it, im gonna crack it up xD

This is truly fascinating. I wonder, as other articles have stated, if this is "insurance" in case of an attack on WikiLeaks.

"AES-256" is a very powerful cryptographic algorithm adopted by the U.S. government. I'll shit a ton of bricks if this file turns out to be garbage data ...

Here is some of my own research while studying this file using a hex-editor:

Keep in mind that I am in no way an expert in this field...

The word "Salted" (random-bit cryptography) appears in the header, which means this file is indeed encrypted...

While doing a string search for "7zip", it appears 5 times throughout the file at the following addresses:

0x0172259B
0x0AAA7311
0x0B926459
0x31A590C8
0x4D66FA06

^^^The first one could be the initial "zip" of the file in question and the last 4 could be the zips inside. Or those could be 5 separate zip files containing the contents. Also, due to encryption and the size of the file, there is a great possibility that the words "7zip" appear only out of randomness...

This site has more information.

Here is some more.

Something that got my attention:



Taken from here.

"Jul 6, 2010"? "Encrypted film"?... I don't know...