如何为iOS实现客户端证书和服务器身份验证

sam*_*npa 8 client certificate keychain ios mutual-authentication

我最近经历了一个非常艰巨的过程来构建一些应该非常简单但在任何一个地方看起来基本上都找不到的东西.我想尝试把所有内容都放在这里询问我是否做错了,如果没有,请帮助那些需要这些信息的人.

背景:我试图提供安全性的产品/服务是围绕Windows服务器上的WCF服务构建的,只能通过PC或iPad上的自定义客户端应用程序访问.每个客户一台服务器,无浏览器访问权限 使用Windows标准机制和来自商业CA的证书,所有内容都已通过身份验证和授权进行TLS保护.

为了进一步限制访问,使用自签名证书为Windows平台实现了客户端/服务器证书(在没有公共/浏览器访问的相互身份验证的情况下不需要商业CA--尽管声称相反 - 并且它们更难管理).

让所有这些对iPad起作用是一个非常有记录的噩梦,有大量的虚假信息或部分正确的建议.在接下来的内容中,我尝试链接到最佳来源,但如果我无意中错过了归因,我会道歉.如果这篇文章有任何错误/误导,请发表评论.

谢谢

sam*_*npa 15

主要步骤是:

  1. 创建一个用于生成证书的系统(如果是生产系统,则容易但不重要)
  2. 将证书转移到iPad(未嵌入应用程序商店包中!)
  3. 将所有收到的凭据保存在应用程序密钥链中(Apple称其属于)
  4. 从钥匙串中检索已保存的凭据,以便在NSURLConnections中使用
  5. 实际上验证服务器证书并返回客户端凭据

步骤1.生成证书

参考:http://developer-should-know.tumblr.com/post/127063737582/how-to-create-your-own-pki-with-openssl

您可以使用其他方法,但OpenSSL for Windows [ http://slproweb.com/products.html]非常棒,除了标准接口是cmdline并且文档很难遵循.

What I wish someone had explained to me up front is obvious, yet not: [a] The app installs to a root level directory and includes configuration files that are used by default for settings that are not specified at the command line [b] the locations of the intermediate and output files should be specified in the configuration files [c] certain files need to be created by hand before running the commands [d] you should build a file/folder structure that suits what you are trying to do and then customize the cfg files accordingly.

In my case, this meant one RootCA for my company, an intermediate cert per customer (set to be good to only make client certificates), a server certificate per customer, and client certificates as required. (this is the minimum config, never use CA/client pairs, keep the root in a lockbox) Here’s my file structure:

c:\sslcert
    root
    certs
        YourCompany (duplicate this structure as required)
             intermediate
             server
             client
             crl (optional)
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In top level sslcert folder

.rnd        (empty file)
certindex.txt   (empty file)
serial.txt  (Text file seeded with the text “01”, hold the quotes)
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In root folder

RootCA.cfg
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In certs\template folder

IntermediateCA.cfg
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Set working directory and launch OpenSSL cd \sslcert c:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl.exe

Create root key and certificate in one step

req -config ./root/RootCA.cfg -new -x509 -days 7300 -extensions v3_ca -keyout root/YourCompanyRootCAkey.pem -out root/YourCompanyRootCAcert.cer
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NOTE for the beginner: the -extensions allows you to choose to apply one of several subsections in the same cfg file.

Check key and cert (optional)

x509 -noout -text -in root/YourCompanyRootCAcert.cer
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Request a new intermediate certificate

req -config certs/YourCompany/IntermediateCA.cfg -new -keyout certs/YourCompany/intermediate/intermediateCAkey.pem -out certs/YourCompany/intermediate/intermediateCAreq.pem ?
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Sign intermediate certificate using root certificate found in root config

ca -config root/RootCA.cfg -extensions v3_intermediate_ca -days 3650 -notext -in certs/YourCompany/intermediate/intermediateCAreq.pem -out certs/YourCompany/intermediate/YourCompanyIntermediateCAcert.cer
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Check key and cert (optional)

x509 -noout -text -in certs/YourCompany/intermediate/YourCompanyIntermediateCAcert.cer
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Create the certificate chain file by concatenating the intermediate and root certificates (this is just a simple append from the command line - the new chain will be added to the final p12 package)

c:\sslcert> type c:\sslcert\certs\YourCompany\intermediate\YourCompanyIntermediateCAcert.cer c:\sslcert\root\YourCompanyRootCAcert.cer > c:\sslcert\certs\YourCompany\intermediate\YourCompanyCAchain.cer
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Request a new client key and certificate

genrsa -aes256 -out certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientkey.pem 2048
req -config certs/YourCompany/IntermediateCA.cfg -key 
certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientkey.pem -new -sha256 -out         certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientreq.pem
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Sign and test client certificate with intermediate authority

ca -config certs/YourCompany/IntermediateCA.cfg -extensions usr_cert -days 1095 -notext -md sha256 -in certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientreq.pem -out certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientcert.cer
x509 -noout -text -in certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientcert.cer
verify -CAfile certs/YourCompany/intermediate/YourCompanyCAchain.cer certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientcert.cer
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Package client certificate

pkcs12 -export -in certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientcert.cer -name “YourCompany Smips Client” -inkey certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientkey.pem -certfile certs/YourCompany/intermediate/YourCompanyCAchain.cer -out certs/YourCompany/client/YourCompanyClientWithName.p12
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Rename pkcs for import into iOS from email/iTunes

c:\sslcert> copy c:\sslcert\certs\YourCompany\client\YourCompanyClient.p12 c:\sslcert\certs\YourCompany\client\YourCompanyClient.yourext12
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Request a new server key and certificate

genrsa -aes256 -out certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServerkey.pem 2048
req -config certs/YourCompany/IntermediateCA.cfg -key certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServerkey.pem -new -sha256 -out certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServerreq.pem
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Sign and test server certificate with intermediate authority

ca -config certs/YourCompany/IntermediateCA.cfg -extensions server_cert -days 1095 -notext -md sha256 -in certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServerreq.pem -out certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServercert.cer
x509 -noout -text -in certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServercert.cer
verify -CAfile certs/YourCompany/intermediate/YourCompanyCAchain.cer certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServercert.cer
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Package server certificate

pkcs12 -export -in certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServercert.cer -name “YourCompany Smips Server” -inkey certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServerkey.pem -certfile certs/YourCompany/intermediate/YourCompanyCAchain.cer -out certs/YourCompany/server/YourCompanyServer.p12
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Here are the cfg files: Root

dir                 = .

[ ca ]
default_ca              = CA_default

[ CA_default ]
serial              = $dir/serial.txt
database                = $dir/certindex.txt
new_certs_dir           = $dir/certs
certs                   = $dir/certs
private_key             = $dir/root/yourcompanyRootCAkey.pem
certificate             = $dir/root/yourcompanyRootCAcert.cer
default_days            = 7300
default_md              = sha256
preserve                = no
email_in_dn             = no
nameopt             = default_ca 
certopt             = default_ca 
policy              = policy_strict

[ policy_strict ]
countryName                 = match
stateOrProvinceName         = match
organizationName            = match
organizationalUnitName      = optional
commonName                  = supplied
emailAddress                = optional

[ req ]
default_bits            = 4096      # Size of keys
default_keyfile         = key.pem       # name of generated keys
default_md              = sha256        # message digest algorithm
string_mask             = nombstr       # permitted characters
distinguished_name      = req_distinguished_name
x509_extensions         = v3_ca

[ req_distinguished_name ]
0.organizationName           = Organization Name
organizationalUnitName       = Organizational Unit Name
emailAddress                 = Email Address
emailAddress_max            = 40
localityName            = Locality Name (city, district)
stateOrProvinceName     = State or Province Name (full name)
countryName             = Country Name (2 letter code)
countryName_min         = 2
countryName_max         = 2
commonName              = Common Name (hostname, IP, or your name)
commonName_max          = 64

0.organizationName_default  = yourcompany
organizationalUnitName_default  = yourcompanyRoot Certification
emailAddress_default        = info@yourcompany.com
localityName_default        = Okeefenokee
stateOrProvinceName_default = Wisconsin
countryName_default     = US

[ v3_ca ]
subjectKeyIdentifier = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid:always,issuer
basicConstraints = critical, CA:true
keyUsage = critical, digitalSignature, cRLSign, keyCertSign

[ v3_intermediate_ca ]
subjectKeyIdentifier = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid:always,issuer
basicConstraints = critical, CA:true, pathlen:0
keyUsage = critical, digitalSignature, cRLSign, keyCertSign

[ crl_ext ]
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always
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Intermediate

dir = .

# [For non-command-line folks, everything is keyed to the working directory here (.) so if your working prompt says c:\sslcerts> then the cfg will look for serial.txt at c:\sslcerts\serial.txt and bomb if it doesn’t find things laid out accordingly. Thats why you set up a directory structure to match these entries]

[ ca ]
default_ca              = CA_default

[ CA_default ]
serial                  = $dir/serial.txt
database                = $dir/certindex.txt
crl_dir                 = $dir/certs/yourcompany/crl
new_certs_dir               = $dir/certs
certs                   = $dir/certs
private_key             = $dir/certs/yourcompany/intermediate/IntermediateCAkey.pem
certificate             = $dir/certs/yourcompany/intermediate/yourcompanyIntermediateCAcert.cer
default_days                = 3650
default_md              = sha256
preserve                = no
email_in_dn             = no
nameopt                 = default_ca
certopt                 = default_ca 
crlnumber               = $dir/certs/yourcompany/crl/crlnumber
crl                 = $dir/certs/yourcompany/crl/crl.pem
crl_extensions              = crl_ext
default_crl_days            = 365
policy                  = policy_loose

[ policy_loose ]
countryName                     = optional
stateOrProvinceName             = optional
localityName                    = optional
organizationName                = optional
organizationalUnitName          = optional
commonName                      = supplied
emailAddress                    = optional

[ req ]
default_bits                = 4096              # Size of keys
default_keyfile             = $dir/certs/yourcompany/intermediate/IntermediateCAkey.pem
default_md              = sha256            # message digest 

# the old default was md1 - change this]

algorithm
string_mask             = nombstr           # permitted characters
distinguished_name          = req_distinguished_name
x509_extensions             = v3_intermediate_ca

[ req_distinguished_name ]
0.organizationName                  = Organization Name
organizationalUnitName              = Organizational Unit Name
emailAddress                        = Email Address
emailAddress_max            = 40
localityName                = Locality Name (city, district)
stateOrProvinceName         = State or Province Name (full name)
countryName             = Country Name (2 letter code)
countryName_min             = 2
countryName_max             = 2
commonName              = Common Name (hostname, IP, or your name)
commonName_max              = 64

0.organizationName_default      = yourcompany
organizationalUnitName_default      = yourcompany Intermediate Certification
emailAddress_default            = info@yourcompany.com
localityName_default            = Okeefenokee
stateOrProvinceName_default     = Wisconsin [should be spelled out]
countryName_default         = US

[ v3_intermediate_ca ]
subjectKeyIdentifier            = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier          = keyid:always,issuer
basicConstraints            = critical, CA:true, pathlen:0
keyUsage                = critical, digitalSignature, cRLSign, keyCertSign

# Important - the pathlen parameter prevents this cert from being used to create new intermediate certs. The subsequent subsections for server and client certs allows you to specify their type and intended usage, as distinct from the intermediate cert, in the same cfg file 

[ usr_cert ]
basicConstraints            = CA:FALSE
nsCertType              = client, email
nsComment               = "OpenSSL Generated Client Certificate"
subjectKeyIdentifier            = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier          = keyid,issuer
keyUsage                = critical, nonRepudiation, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
extendedKeyUsage            = clientAuth, emailProtection

[ server_cert ]
basicConstraints            = CA:FALSE
nsCertType              = server
nsComment               = "OpenSSL Generated Server Certificate"
subjectKeyIdentifier            = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier          = keyid,issuer:always
keyUsage                = critical, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
extendedKeyUsage            = serverAuth

[ crl_ext ]
authorityKeyIdentifier          = keyid:always
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2. Transfer certificates to an iPad

Ref: how to register the app to open the pdf file in my app in ipad

Apple recommends registering a new file type handled by your app and transferring a p12 file renamed with the new custom extension to a device (manually or email) to install client certs. The p12 file should include the public cert chain as well as the client cert info as defined in step 1 above. When you try to open such a file, the device sends a start/wakeup to your app delegate which you need to handle (not in didload because it could be a wake).

This has changed a bit with v8 or 9 but I need to support 7 so this is for the deprecated handler. Same solution though and it starts with adding to the app plist file as shown in the screenshots below.

Note that you will need two new icons and file extension that is not likely to be claimed by another app

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Next you need the delegate/handler which should be self-explanatory. Since this part has nothing to do with the normal control flow I am handling all the delegate processing in AppDelegate.m. (is this so wrong?) Set up the methods/variables as required and please ignore the paranoid extra check for file existence...

Ref: https://www.raywenderlich.com/6475/basic-security-in-ios-5-tutorial-part-1

- (BOOL) application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication
           annotation:(id)annotation {

    if (url) {

        self.p12Data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[url path]];

        if (!p12Data) {
            [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Failed to read data file, cancelling certificate import"];
        }
        else {
            [self presentAlertViewForPassPhrase];
        }

        NSFileManager * fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
        if ( [fileManager fileExistsAtPath:[url path]] ) {
            [fileManager removeItemAtPath:[url path] error:NULL];
        }
    }

    return YES;
}

- (void)presentAlertViewForPassPhrase {

    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Certificate Credentials"
                                                    message:@"Please enter the passphrase for your certificate"
                                                   delegate:self
                                          cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
                                          otherButtonTitles:@"Done", nil];
    [alert setAlertViewStyle:UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput];
    [alert show];
}

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {

    if (buttonIndex == 1) {                                             // User selected "Done"
        UITextField *ppField = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0];
        if ([ppField.text length] > 0) {
            [self loadCertificates:ppField.text];
        }
        //Handle Else
    }
    else
    {                                                                   // User selected "Cancel"
        [self messageBox:@"Information" : @"Certificate import cancelled"];
    }
}
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3. Save received credentials in the app keychain

Now that you have the raw p12 data it should be simple to figure out what to do next...NOT. All the documentation seems to be for name/pwd storage and a scary number of posters suggest saving the server cert to the file system, which is ok but makes absolutely no sense when you have the keychain and Apple says that's what it's for. Last but not least how do you distinguish between stored certs and how do you update them?

Long story short, I decided to do a complete delete/resave after trying all kinds of things that do not work to check if it should be an update or an initial load - besides that's what I wanted to do in the first place since it's my app chain. All this is CF stuff and I'm not using ARC because I refuse to port anything I don't have to. As near as I can tell, as long as you allocate CF, cast to NS, and CFRelease after use there are no warnings.

These are key references:

Enumerate all Keychain items in my iOS application

[essential to help visualize what your keychain looks like]

How to delete all keychain items accessible to an app?

What makes a keychain item unique (in iOS)?

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_smp307sdk/helpdata/en/7c/03830b70061014a937d8267bb3f358/content.htm

[https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/AdvancedURLConnections/Listings/Credentials_m.html, which says:

// IMPORTANT: SecCertificateRef's are not uniqued (that is, you can get two
// different SecCertificateRef values that described the same fundamental
// certificate in the keychain), nor can they be compared with CFEqual. So
// we match up certificates based on their data values.
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The summary is that (duh) the easiest thing to do is to assign a label to the cert so you can look it up uniquely and realize that if you save an identity it will be split up into key and cert automatically, which may - not sure - have led to some difficulty with replacement.

The code (explanation follows):

- (void) loadCertificates:(NSString *)passPhrase {

    BOOL lastError = false;
    NSMutableDictionary * p12Options = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
    [p12Options setObject:passPhrase forKey:(id)kSecImportExportPassphrase];
    CFArrayRef items = CFArrayCreate(NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
    OSStatus err = SecPKCS12Import((CFDataRef)p12Data, (CFDictionaryRef)p12Options, &items);
    if (err != noErr) {
        [self messageBox:@"Error" : @"Unable to extract security information with the supplied credentials. Please retry"];
        lastError = true;
    }
    if (!lastError && err == noErr && CFArrayGetCount(items) > 0) {
        CFDictionaryRef identityDict = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(items, 0);
        //Clean-up

        NSArray *secItemClasses = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                                   (id)kSecClassCertificate,
                                   (id)kSecClassKey,
                                   (id)kSecClassIdentity,
                                   nil];

        for (id secItemClass in secItemClasses) {
            NSDictionary *spec = @{(id)kSecClass: secItemClass};
            err = SecItemDelete((CFDictionaryRef)spec);
        }

        //Client Identity & Certificate

        SecIdentityRef clientIdentity = (SecIdentityRef)CFDictionaryGetValue(identityDict, kSecImportItemIdentity);

        NSDictionary *addIdentityQuery = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                          kClientIdentityLabel, kSecAttrLabel,
                                          (id)clientIdentity, kSecValueRef,
                                          nil];
        err = SecItemAdd((CFDictionaryRef)addIdentityQuery, NULL);
        if (err == errSecDuplicateItem) {
            NSLog(@"Duplicate identity");
        }
        if (err != noErr) {
            [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Failed to save the new identity"];
            lastError = true;
        }
        //Server Certificate
        CFArrayRef chain = CFDictionaryGetValue(identityDict, kSecImportItemCertChain);
        CFIndex N = CFArrayGetCount(chain);
        BOOL brk = false;
        for (CFIndex i=0; (i < N) && (brk == false); i++) {
            SecCertificateRef cert = (SecCertificateRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(chain, i);
            CFStringRef summary = SecCertificateCopySubjectSummary(cert);
            NSString* strSummary = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:(NSString *)summary];
            if ([strSummary containsString:@"Root"] || (i == N)) {

                NSDictionary *addCertQuery = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                              kServerCertificateLabel, kSecAttrLabel,
                                              (id)cert, kSecValueRef,
                                              nil];
                err = SecItemAdd((CFDictionaryRef)addCertQuery, NULL);
                if (err == errSecDuplicateItem) {
                    NSLog(@"Duplicate root certificate");
            }
            if (err != noErr) {
                [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Failed to save the new server certificate"];
                lastError = true;
            }
            brk = true;
        }
        [strSummary release];
        CFRelease(summary);
    }
}
else {
    [self messageBox:@"Error" : @"Unable to extract security information with the supplied credentials. Please retry"];
    lastError = true;
}
    [p12Options release];
    CFRelease(items);
    if (!lastError) [self messageBox:@"Information" : @"Certificate import succeeded"];
}
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where kClientIdentityLabel and kServerCertificateLabel are arbitrary labels.

The kSec functions are too many/complex to explain here in detail. Suffice it to say that everything is cleared, then the extracted client identity is saved, followed by extraction of the root CA which is then saved separately. Why the loop? because I didn't know if it is technically correct to assume the root is at the end of the chain but it will be if I generate the p12 so the code is just there for now.

Note that errors from kSec are encoded so this site is indispensable: https://www.osstatus.com

4. Retrieve the saved credentials from the keychain

Once the credentials are in the keychain you can extract them thusly (the failure modes leave something to be desired):

- (void) reloadCredentials {

    self.clientCredential = nil;
    self.serverCertificateData = nil;

    if (self.useClientCertificateIfPresent) {

        NSDictionary* idQuery = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                 kClientIdentityLabel,            kSecAttrLabel,
                                 (id)kSecClassIdentity,           kSecClass,
                                 kCFBooleanTrue,                  kSecReturnRef,
                                 kSecMatchLimitAll,               kSecMatchLimit,
                                 nil];
        CFArrayRef result = nil;
        OSStatus err = SecItemCopyMatching((CFDictionaryRef)idQuery, (CFTypeRef*)&result);
        if (err == errSecItemNotFound) {
            [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Client credentials not found. Server connection may fail"];
        }
        else if (err == noErr && result != nil ) {

            SecIdentityRef clientIdentity = (SecIdentityRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(result, 0);

            SecCertificateRef clientCertificate;
            SecIdentityCopyCertificate(clientIdentity, &clientCertificate);
            const void *certs[] = { clientCertificate };
            CFArrayRef certsArray = CFArrayCreate(NULL, certs, 1, NULL);
            self.clientCredential = [NSURLCredential credentialWithIdentity:clientIdentity certificates:(NSArray*)certsArray
                                                                      persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceNone];
            CFRelease(certsArray);
            CFRelease(clientCertificate);
            CFRelease(result);
        }
        else {
            [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Client or Server credentials not found. Server connection may fail"];
        }

        NSDictionary* serverCertQuery = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                         kServerCertificateLabel,         kSecAttrLabel,
                                         (id)kSecClassCertificate,        kSecClass,
                                         kCFBooleanTrue,                  kSecReturnRef,
                                         kSecMatchLimitAll,               kSecMatchLimit,
                                         nil];
        CFArrayRef result1 = nil;
        err = SecItemCopyMatching((CFDictionaryRef)serverCertQuery, (CFTypeRef*)&result1);
        if (err == errSecItemNotFound) {
            [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Server certificate not found. Server connection may fail"];
        }
        else if (err == noErr && result1 != nil ) {

            SecCertificateRef certRef = (SecCertificateRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(result1, 0);
            CFDataRef certRefData = SecCertificateCopyData(certRef);
            self.serverCertificateData = (NSData *)certRefData;
            CFRelease(certRefData);
            CFRelease(result1);
        }
        else {
            [self messageBox:@"Warning" : @"Client or Server credentials not found. Server connection may fail"];
        }
    }
}
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5. Authenticate server certificate and return client credentials

Hoo boy. This is an edit to explain how to actually use the retrieved certificates (it was supposed to be the easy obvious part...)

First, Apple's already dubious documentation is obsoleted by the new Application Transport Security framework (see for instance: http://useyourloaf.com/blog/app-transport-security/). I'm not going to get into it here but the idea is to force everyone to always use https and trusted certs by default. For my scenario, with certificate pinning and mutual authentication between dedicated clients and a private server you can safely turn this feature off by adding a dictionary to your plist as follows:

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Next, in Step 4, you already had the client credential to respond to that challenge immediately when it hits but the server cert is floating around as NSData in DER format as created by SecCertificateCopyData and it is not clear what should happen when that challenge arrives.

Turns out that what you are supposed to do is implement the algorithm in section 6 of the "X.509 standard" (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280). Luckily, this is implemented behind the scenes by the iOS SecTrustEvaluate function but there is scaffolding to build and weird stuff to understand.

[Slight problem - ran out of space!! Added a new question, including the end of this step.]

/sf/ask/2517524271/

[Continuing from other post]

So that's it. Sorry about the not quite production quality but I wanted to slap this together while it was still fresh in my mind. I will update the post if I find errors.

Hope this helps and here's a final link to a very good book that, amongst other things, will give you the creeps about trusting commercial CAs...

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf

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