Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is less convinced the file represents a challenge to the US government. "I don't see it as a challenge, as much as being open about what's going on," she told the BBC. In Ms Cohn's view the idea of circulating encrypted copies of information to keep it safe is well-established. The tactic, according to Ms Cohn, has been used in the past by human rights groups and other organisations. She points to projects like Freenet, which use encryption and wide distribution of data to resist censorship. "Wikileaks is doing the same basic thing in a more directly political context and using encryption to allow them to be more open about it on the front end." Read full article.