iphone: is there any secure way to establish 2-way SSL from an application
- by pmilosev
Hi
I need to establish a HTTPS 2-way SSL connection from my iPhone application to the customer's server.
However I don't see any secure way to deliver the client side certificates to the application (it's an e-banking app, so security is really an issue).
From what I have found so far the only way that the app would be able to access the certificate is to provide it pre-bundeled with the application itself, or expose an URL from which it could be fetched (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2037172/iphone-app-with-ssl-client-certs).
The thing is that neither of this two ways prevent some third party to get the certificate, which if accepted as a risk eliminates the need for 2-way SSL (since anyone can have the client certificate).
The whole security protocol should look like this:
- HTTPS 2-way SSL to authenticate the application
- OTP (token) based user registration (client side key pair generated at this step)
- SOAP / WSS XML-Signature (requests signed by the keys generated earlier)
Any idea on how to establish the first layer of security (HTTPS) ?
regards
