>>11495822 (pb) Video: STING (confirmed)

>>11496551 , >>11496621 , >>11496670 , >>11496712 (lb) The Postal Service patented "secure voting system" using blockchain technology in Aug 2020.

Cryptographyanon here. I'm trying to make sense of Steve Pieczenik's remarks about "QFS blockchain encryption" watermarks on the ballots.

If you google for QFS, you find lots of references to a "Quantum Financial System", which is described as a future world monetary system and has nothing to do with US elections. It's just not relevant.

One thing which is completely certain is that there was no blockchain voting system used in this election. Those systems exist, but the experience of voting that way is nothing at all like filling out a paper ballot. It would be more like sending a bitcoin payment. That didn't happen.

So I think Steve Pieczenik misspoke when he said "QFS blockchain encryption". I think he meant either "QFS blocking encryption" or "QFS-resistant block encryption".

The reason I think that is that QFS is Quantum Fourier Sampling, which is the algorithm that quantum computers can use to break codes that classical computers can't break. China can do it. Any system used by the USA to protect ballots must be resistant to QFS attacks since China will have access to quantum computers when trying to forge the ballots.

There are cryptosystems that are resistant to QFS.

E.g.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.4382.pdf

https://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2011/slides/13-4-Dinh.pdf

http://www.billfefferman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sampling.pdf

So I think Pieczenik was saying that one of these cryptosystems was used to generate the watermarks on the ballots.

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I don't trust infowars. I'm just trying to make sense of what Pieczenik said.

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Presuming he meant a quantum fourier sampling-resistant digital signature algorithm was used, here's how it would work.

Every ballot will have a unique identifier, like a ballot number. The government chooses a random secret that nobody else knows, and uses a cryptographic algorithm (resistant to QFS attacks from China) to combine that secret with the ballot number and produce a digital signature, which is a code that nobody without the secret can generate.

That code would be watermarked onto the ballot, and the fact that the code is valid proves that the government produced the ballot because nobody else knows the secret and so nobody else can generate valid watermarks.

The ballot numbers are unique to each ballot, so you can't just copy the watermark onto a different ballot.