This article describes the global service settings for the timestamp services configured in Nexus Timestamp Server. The global service settings are used by all timestamp services and not configured separately per timestamp service.
These settings are used by more than one filter and are defined in service.properties.
Set the applicable parameters, described in this table:
Parameter
Description
Possible values
Default value
signer.store
The path to the keystore used for signing the timestamp response. Must be a PKCS#12, JKS or PKCS#11 library (.dll, .so) file.
Path
-
signer.store.pin
The password to unlock the keystore.
String
-
signer.password
The password needed to unlock the signing certificate/key.
String
-
signer.nopinpad
Suppress the use of a PIN-pad reader. If set to true, then force login with password even if the device reports that it has a PIN-pad reader
true/false
false
signer.alias
The friendly name of the certificate/key in the keystore in PKCS#12 and JKS. Only required if the file contains more than one private key. In PKCS#11, this must be the CKA_LABEL of the certificate and private key.
String
-
signer.store.tokenlabel
The label name of the PKCS#11 token which contains the key and certificate to be used. This parameter is OPTIONAL.
String
-
trust.store.default store
The path to the trust store. Used for validating the timestamp request if client authentication is enabled.
The signing certificate used by the timestamp service must be a valid timestamping certificate. This means that a timestamping certificate must have Extended Key Usage set to Timestamping.