I deployed a wcf service to my discountasp account and some times when I try to connect and authenticate I am getting back a fault Exception (An error occurred when verifying security for the message). Searching over google (http://intrepiddeveloper.wordpress....ntication-failure-timestamp-clock-skew-issue/) I come to the conclusion that is something about different time zones and an enforced security of the wsHttpBinding to protect you for some time attracts. I follow online instructions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa738468.aspx) but the problem still exists. I am from Greece and my time zone is GMT+2 My customBinding with maxClockSkew option (from online instructions) is following: <customBinding> <binding name="wsHttpBindingWithMaxClockSkew"> <transactionFlow transactionProtocol="WSAtomicTransactionOctober2004" /> <security defaultAlgorithmSuite="Default" authenticationMode="SecureConversation" requireDerivedKeys="true" securityHeaderLayout="Strict" includeTimestamp="true" keyEntropyMode="CombinedEntropy" messageProtectionOrder="SignBeforeEncryptAndEncryptSignature" messageSecurityVersion="WSSecurity11WSTrustFebruary2005WSSecureConversationFebruary2005WSSecurityPolicy11BasicSecurityProfile10" requireSecurityContextCancellation="true" requireSignatureConfirmation="false"> <localClientSettings cacheCookies="true" detectReplays="true" replayCacheSize="900000" maxClockSkew="22:00:00" maxCookieCachingTime="Infinite" replayWindow="00:05:00" sessionKeyRenewalInterval="10:00:00" sessionKeyRolloverInterval="00:05:00" reconnectTransportOnFailure="false" timestampValidityDuration="00:05:00" cookieRenewalThresholdPercentage="60" /> <localServiceSettings detectReplays="true" issuedCookieLifetime="10:00:00" maxStatefulNegotiations="128" replayCacheSize="900000" maxClockSkew="22:00:00" negotiationTimeout="00:01:00" replayWindow="00:05:00" inactivityTimeout="00:02:00" sessionKeyRenewalInterval="15:00:00" sessionKeyRolloverInterval="00:05:00" reconnectTransportOnFailure="false" maxPendingSessions="128" maxCachedCookies="1000" timestampValidityDuration="00:05:00" /> <secureConversationBootstrap defaultAlgorithmSuite="Default" authenticationMode="UserNameForCertificate" requireDerivedKeys="true" securityHeaderLayout="Strict" includeTimestamp="true" keyEntropyMode="CombinedEntropy" messageProtectionOrder="SignBeforeEncryptAndEncryptSignature" messageSecurityVersion="WSSecurity11WSTrustFebruary2005WSSecureConversationFebruary2005WSSecurityPolicy11BasicSecurityProfile10" requireSignatureConfirmation="false"> <localClientSettings cacheCookies="true" detectReplays="true" replayCacheSize="900000" maxClockSkew="22:00:00" maxCookieCachingTime="Infinite" replayWindow="00:05:00" sessionKeyRenewalInterval="10:00:00" sessionKeyRolloverInterval="00:05:00" reconnectTransportOnFailure="true" timestampValidityDuration="00:05:00" cookieRenewalThresholdPercentage="60" /> <localServiceSettings detectReplays="true" issuedCookieLifetime="00:15:00" maxStatefulNegotiations="128" replayCacheSize="900000" maxClockSkew="22:00:00" negotiationTimeout="00:01:00" replayWindow="00:05:00" inactivityTimeout="00:02:00" sessionKeyRenewalInterval="15:00:00" sessionKeyRolloverInterval="00:05:00" reconnectTransportOnFailure="true" maxPendingSessions="128" maxCachedCookies="1000" timestampValidityDuration="00:05:00" /> </secureConversationBootstrap> </security> <textMessageEncoding maxReadPoolSize="64" maxWritePoolSize="16" messageVersion="Default" writeEncoding="utf-8"> <readerQuotas maxDepth="64" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" /> </textMessageEncoding> <httpTransport manualAddressing="false" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" allowCookies="false" authenticationScheme="Anonymous" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" keepAliveEnabled="true" maxBufferSize="2147483647" proxyAuthenticationScheme="Anonymous" realm="" transferMode="Buffered" unsafeConnectionNtlmAuthentication="false" useDefaultWebProxy="true"> </httpTransport> </binding> </customBinding> If anybody can help/assist me in any possible way to overcome my exception.. Thanks a lot for your time.