I need to share generated public key to other ios device, what is the best way to share that?
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > > On 21 May 2014, at 5:41 pm, Devarshi Kulshreshtha > <devarshi.bluec...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> am working on below scenario: >> >> 1. User A generates public key and private key >> 2. User A shares public key to user B >> 3. User B encrypts some data using shared public key >> 4. User B sends encrypted data to user A >> 5. User A decrypts data using related private key >> >> (Note: this is a part of problem which I am trying to solve, related >> mail chain has subject: 'Share and store RSA - public key in java >> server and vice versa') >> >> I found this sample code provided by apple - >> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/CryptoCompatibility/Introduction/Intro.html >> >> Here they have discussed that we can extract public key from .cer >> file, which means that if we want to share public key we need to share >> .cer file. >> >> Is there any method to generate .cer file in cocoa? > > > Probably, but why bother? Just use SecKeyGeneratePair(), part of the security > functions (assuming this is something private to an app of yours and not > needed for compatibility with an existing security protocol). A search in the > docs on that function will turn up something to go on. > > P.S. I've not used it myself, and I'm not offering this from experience - I > just googled how to generate key pair in Cocoa. There may be better > alternatives. > > --Graham -- Thanks, Devarshi _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
