http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll not available

Question

When the following URL is not available, what other timestamp URL can I use in my setup authoring tool? The specific error I get is: SignTool Error: The specified time

Answer 1

http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll has limped along for the last few years and had been working in a sort of depreciated state, but the new owners of the certificate issuing business, DigiCert, have issued a migration alert.

They have officially put the old services to EOL as of the back end of 2019.

(article no no longer exists 18/11/2020) https://knowledge.digicert.com/alerts/migration-of-legacy-verisign-and-symantec-time-stamping-services.html

New services can be found at

http://timestamp.digicert.com?alg=sha1

http://timestamp.digicert.com?alg=sha256

Troubleshooting time stamping