Re: Client-side SSL on iPhone?
Re: Client-side SSL on iPhone?
- Subject: Re: Client-side SSL on iPhone?
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:08:21 -0500
On 11 Apr 2009, at 1:55 PM, Eli Bach wrote:
What do you mean by possible? It definitely is possible, because
Safari can connect to https sites properly.
Have you considered searching for 'SSL' on the archives for this
mailing list, and then checking if that same API's mentioned for
MacOSX are also available in the iPhone SDK?
It is possible my question is naive or ignorant, but I wonder if we
are talking at cross-purposes.
In addition to server-side SSL, which authenticates the server
(https://), there is (as I understand) _client_-side SSL, which
authenticates the client. The server (as I understand) is set up to
accept connections only from clients that can present known
certificates.
I'm very new to this, but that is my understanding. I'd be glad to be
corrected. References to server-side SSL are, as you say, abundant,
and the Mac OS X Secure Transport and Keychain APIs seem to provide
support for client-side SSL (see SSLSetCertificate()).
My question is, is there API for an iPhone to import such
certificates, and to associate them with HTTPS connections?
(I'm kind of afraid not, as the iPhone seems to have a trope of
caching passwords as little as possible, which makes sense on a
machine with so little physical security.)
— F
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