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by justsomeadvice0 1368 days ago
TBH this is a good argument not to trust timestamp servers. AFAIK usually you just want to stick to one, and not treat a group of them interchangeably (ala the Internet Root Bundle). In any case, the owners of the repo (or email message) would decide for themselves which one(s) they want to trust.
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We do use just a specific one at work. My point was that it's a highly secured process limited to just a few companies, and becoming one is a lot of effort, if at all possible. There are even some RFC3161 servers just not trusted by Windows, ergo: useless for most timestamping uses.