diff --git a/seednode/pom.xml b/seednode/pom.xml
index 4ba41b35f2..bbe043637f 100644
--- a/seednode/pom.xml
+++ b/seednode/pom.xml
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@
                 <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>3.1.0</version>
                 <configuration>
+                    <artifactSet>
+                        <excludes>
+                            <exclude>org.bouncycastle:*:*:*</exclude>
+                        </excludes>
+                    </artifactSet>
                     <!-- broken with Java 8 (MSHADE-174), using ProGuard instead. -->
                     <minimizeJar>false</minimizeJar>
                     <transformers>