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He's a cryptographer, and he's on record as saying that the encryption was moderately hard. I think there's more involved than brute-forcing.
Brute-forcing a relatively long passphrase is actually a reasonable accomplishment, especially in secret, and with a limited budget. I will bet 99% that is what he did, and the 'moderately hard' part was in getting resources to run a covert distributed break.