> Your same link also explains how to sign a file with a timestamp as well Sure, further down it explains how to use signtool to timestamp something, but why w

> Your same link also explains how to sign a file with a timestamp as well Sure, further down it explains how to use signtool to timestamp something, but why would someone trying to get an app signed care about using the tool for timestamping? > where Microsoft does talk about when you should be timestamping If someone finds that article first, and reads to the bottom of it, it explains that timestamping is related and important and says the times you should be timestamping are "you should definitely do this", so perhaps a design that isn't a foot-gun would have "do this" as the default, with a --force option and alarmist warnings for anybody who has a reason to have their signed executables expire one day. Design oversights and user mistakes like these will happen, but it doesn't mean influences and causes can't be identified and improved. (most of the builds at the company I work for had not been timestamped either)