I just had to log onto the Irish revenue site to renew a digital certificate.
I was greeted by the a message to the following effect:
Security on this site is provided by software from The legion of the bouncy castle.
No link to bouncycastle.org was provided, so I ended up googling to check the thing out. It was all seeming a bit pythonesque.
Turns out it is all fine, an open source set of tools for cryptography.
So, after a slight fright I went ahead and renewed.
More annoyingly, the ROS service still does not support linux as a client. So whilst they use open source software for their site they still insist that you pay the Mac or Microsoft tax to file your taxes
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