(Henry Nicholls/Reuters)On Thursday morning, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that was obtained March 8, 2018. What Assange is alleged to have doneThe indictment apparently centers on messages Manning and Assange exchanged in March 2010. What Manning offered Assange was an LM hash, a password encrypted with the hashing function used by Windows. If Manning’s password weren’t an LM hash, an LM rainbow table wouldn’t work. Again: That Assange couldn’t provide the password that generated the right hash, allowing Manning to access the computer, doesn’t matter.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 15:11 UTC