okay, so checked the hash of wl torrent a and it matched the post, password does not work, on googling the hash came across these posts from January last

year which seems to contain the password https://www.reddit.com/r/goodlongposts/comments/5otfzi/as_of_2017_aes256_compromised_wikileaks_insurance/

signed by "TheQ" maybe a strange coincidence?