{"id":8438,"date":"2014-02-12T15:28:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2014-02-12T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:28:24","slug":"timestamp-disservice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/timestamp-disservice\/","title":{"rendered":"Timestamp Disservice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiestack.com\/2014\/01\/timestamp-disservice\/\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/indiestack.com\/2014\/01\/timestamp-disservice\/\"><p>In the event that the timestamp server cannot be reached for whatever reason, codesign simply fails. This is probably a good idea, because if it&rsquo;s important for signed code to also contain a timestamp, you wouldn&rsquo;t want to accidentally ship a major release of your app without it. But because the timestamp server can be unavailable for a variety of reasons, some of them common, we need some simple solution for continuing with the the day-to-day building of our apps without ever being bothered by the pesky timestamp service issue.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for us, such a solution exists in the form of a codesign command-line flag: &ldquo;&#8211;timestamp&rdquo;. Ordinarily this flag is used to specify the URL of a timestamp server, if you choose to use one other than the Apple default. But a special value none indicates that timestamping of the signed code should be disabled altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not clear to me why the timestamp servers should be so unreliable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: In the event that the timestamp server cannot be reached for whatever reason, codesign simply fails. This is probably a good idea, because if it&rsquo;s important for signed code to also contain a timestamp, you wouldn&rsquo;t want to accidentally ship a major release of your app without it. But because the timestamp server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[466,30,71],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-codesigning","tag-mac","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}