diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index f7afbec..c7a2ead 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-github.com/fxamacker/cbor v1.5.1 h1:XjQWBgdmQyqimslUh5r4tUGmoqzHmBFQOImkWGi2awg=
 github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2 v2.2.0 h1:6eXqdDDe588rSYAi1HfZKbx6YYQO4mxQ9eC6xYpU/JQ=
 github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2 v2.2.0/go.mod h1:TA1xS00nchWmaBnEIxPSE5oHLuJBAVvqrtAnWBwBCVo=
 github.com/x448/float16 v0.8.4 h1:qLwI1I70+NjRFUR3zs1JPUCgaCXSh3SW62uAKT1mSBM=
diff --git a/nitrite.go b/nitrite.go
index c5a9983..2f78bed 100644
--- a/nitrite.go
+++ b/nitrite.go
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"crypto/x509"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2"
 	"math/big"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2"
 )
 
 // Document represents the AWS Nitro Enclave Attestation Document.
@@ -398,3 +399,29 @@ func checkECDSASignature(publicKey *ecdsa.PublicKey, sigStruct, signature []byte
 
 	return ecdsa.Verify(publicKey, hashSigStruct, r, s)
 }
+
+// Timestamp extracts attestation timestamp from `data` without verifying
+// the attestation.
+func Timestamp(data []byte) (time.Time, error) {
+	cose := cosePayload{}
+	err := cbor.Unmarshal(data, &cose)
+	if nil != err {
+		return time.Time{}, ErrBadCOSESign1Structure
+	}
+
+	doc := Document{}
+	err = cbor.Unmarshal(cose.Payload, &doc)
+	if nil != err {
+		return time.Time{}, ErrBadAttestationDocument
+	}
+
+	if doc.Timestamp == 0 {
+		return time.Time{}, ErrMandatoryFieldsMissing
+	}
+
+	// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/enclaves/latest/user/enclaves-user.pdf
+	// (p. 64) describes Timestamp as "UTC time when document was created,
+	// in milliseconds"
+	msec := int64(doc.Timestamp)
+	return time.Unix(msec/1e3, (msec%1e3)*1e6), nil
+}
diff --git a/nitrite_test.go b/nitrite_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..121af87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nitrite_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+package nitrite_test
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2"
+	"github.com/hf/nitrite"
+)
+
+func requireNoError(t *testing.T, got error) {
+	if got != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func requireEqual(t *testing.T, got, want interface{}) {
+	if got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("not equal: got %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func requireErrorIs(t *testing.T, got, want error) {
+	if !errors.Is(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error type: got %T, want %T", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+type testingCOSEPayload struct {
+	_ struct{} `cbor:",toarray"`
+
+	Protected   []byte
+	Unprotected cbor.RawMessage
+	Payload     []byte
+	Signature   []byte
+}
+
+func TestAttestationCreatedAt(t *testing.T) {
+	timeToMillis := func(t time.Time) uint64 {
+		return uint64(t.UnixNano() / 1e6)
+	}
+
+	t.Run("happy path", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// given
+		wantTime := time.Now()
+		doc := nitrite.Document{
+			Timestamp: timeToMillis(wantTime),
+		}
+		docBytes, err := cbor.Marshal(doc)
+		requireNoError(t, err)
+		cosePayload := testingCOSEPayload{
+			Payload: docBytes,
+		}
+		cosePayloadBytes, err := cbor.Marshal(cosePayload)
+		requireNoError(t, err)
+
+		// when
+		gotTime, err := nitrite.Timestamp(cosePayloadBytes)
+
+		// then
+		requireNoError(t, err)
+		requireEqual(t, timeToMillis(gotTime), timeToMillis(wantTime))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("cannot unmarshal COSE payload", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// when
+		_, err := nitrite.Timestamp([]byte("invalid"))
+
+		// then
+		requireErrorIs(t, err, nitrite.ErrBadCOSESign1Structure)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("cannot unmarshal Document", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// given
+		cosePayload := testingCOSEPayload{
+			Payload: []byte("invalid"),
+		}
+		cosePayloadBytes, err := cbor.Marshal(cosePayload)
+		requireNoError(t, err)
+
+		// when
+		_, err = nitrite.Timestamp(cosePayloadBytes)
+
+		// then
+		requireErrorIs(t, err, nitrite.ErrBadAttestationDocument)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("attestation document has no timestamp", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// given
+		doc := nitrite.Document{
+			Timestamp: 0,
+		}
+		docBytes, err := cbor.Marshal(doc)
+		requireNoError(t, err)
+		cosePayload := testingCOSEPayload{
+			Payload: docBytes,
+		}
+		cosePayloadBytes, err := cbor.Marshal(cosePayload)
+		requireNoError(t, err)
+
+		// when
+		_, err = nitrite.Timestamp(cosePayloadBytes)
+
+		// then
+		requireErrorIs(t, err, nitrite.ErrMandatoryFieldsMissing)
+	})
+}