Authenticode timestamping issue

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi.

I'm now getting the following error when using the verisign timestamping service in my Authenticode action.

Error Timestamping file :ASN1 unexpected end of data

Has anyone seen this before and know what it means and where I should start looking to resolve it?

Yours worriedly, Paul Heinz

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Hi Paul,

We're getting the same thing on our build machines. Seems like the Verisign timestamp URL is inaccessible:

http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll

We're investigating as well, so we'll let you know when we find a resolution.  Hopefully it's just that the server is offline.

Regards,

Angus

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Thanks a million for the feedback, Angus!

Yeah, it does seems to wait for ages and then timeout. "timed out contacting server" would be a much less scarier error message than "ASN1 unexpected end of data" :-)

Anyway, glad it's not just me < phew !>

I've got support emails into Verisign and Thawte (who we got the cert from and are owned by Verisign anyway) so if I get any form of support response, I'll post it here in case anyone else hits this.

Regards,

  Paul.

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Seems like the server is back up (I used an Authenticode action with “Retry Attempts” set to 1000 and a one-minute inter-attempt delay to find out when it became available again!)

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Hmm… it actually failed again yesterday but seems to be solid again now…