Linux users cry fail over ATO AUSKey compatibility

“The Australian Taxation Office is pushing the AUSkey public key
infrastructure (PKI) for secure data exchange when submitting tax
returns, but Linux users say they have again been left out in the
cold.

“AUSkey is federal government’s attempt at single sign-on
authentication across a range of business and government online
services and the ATO has started using it this month.

“With AUSkey people no longer need different usernames and
passwords for each government agency they have to deal with as one
AUSkey “will work for all”.”

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