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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, accused David Leigh, The Guardian’s investigations editor, of “recklessly” disclosing a password to decrypt a file containing much more than 250,000 cables from American embassy officials to the State Division.

It follows the publication in February of a e-book by Mr Leigh about The Guardian’s romantic relationship with WikiLeaks, which broke down in acrimony last calendar year. In it, he described in detail how Mr Assange gave him accessibility to the cables, which includes the decryption password.

“Guardian investigations editor, David Leigh, recklessly and without gaining our approval, disclosed the decryption passwords in a guide published by The Guardian,” Wikileaks stated in a assertion, which it described as an act of “gross negligence or malice”.

The Guardian denied that its publication of the password was to blame for the leak.
“It’s nonsense to propose The Guardian’s WikiLeaks e-book has compromised protection in any way,” the newspaper mentioned.
“It contained a password, but no specifics of the area of the files, and we were instructed it was a short-term password which would be deleted in a matter of hours.”
It is assumed that the signifies to contain the encrypted file had been uploaded to a filesharing network. No indication of its contents was given, however, and without the password it would have remained unintelligible to any person who downloaded it.