---
title: "Generates a new timestamp response and creates a new log entry for the timestamp in the transparency log"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/timestamp"
tags: ["timestamp"]
---

# Generates a new timestamp response and creates a new log entry for the timestamp in the transparency log

`POST /api/v1/timestamp`

## Request body

- string, binary

## Response `200`

Returns a timestamp response and the location of the log entry in the transprency log

## Other responses

- `201` — Returns a timestamp response and the location of the log entry in the transprency log
- `400` — The content supplied to the server was invalid
- `501` — The content requested is not implemented
- `default` — There was an internal error in the server while processing the request

## Changes

- **2026-07-17** `616e626df5db` — 1 info
  - added the success response with the status `200`
- **2022-08-16** `2a6644be869e` — 1 breaking
  - removed the success response with the status `200`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/sigstore/apis/timestamp-authority/changes/api/v1/timestamp/post.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/sigstore/apis/timestamp-authority.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/sigstore/apis/timestamp-authority/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/sigstore/timestamp-authority/revisions/616e626df5db/schema)