For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax Digital ?

[Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)]

On 25 July 2017 at 17:54, David Goodenough <
david.goodenough at linkchoose.co.uk> wrote:

>
> There is a problem.  They want to assign a secret ID to each piece of
> software
> and so if you say it is open source they then refuse to allocate an ID as
> it
> will not be secret.  I have raised this with the cabinet office digital
> dept,
> and they acknowledge that this effectively bans open source which is
> against
> official government policy.  They are trying to get this changed.
>
> David
>

I must admit I can't quite think how, but I'm sure some cryptology expert
could find a solution. Although I don't do it now, I was a regular
developer of the sagemath open-source maths program, started by Prof.
William Stein at the University of Washington.

http://www.sagemath.org/

Prof Stein is an expert in number theory, and many of the users of that
package are too. I will drop a few of them an email, and see if any of them
can come up with a solution.

Dave