Basic Security in iOS 5 – Part 1
This is a post by Chris Lowe, an iOS application developer and aspiring game developer living in San Antonio, Texas. He warns that this tutorial is pretty Epic in length, but promises you’ll learn a thing or two along the way. :] One of the most important aspects of software development also happens to be […] By Chris Lowe.
Where to Go From Here?
Here is an example project with all of the code from the tutorial series so far.
That wraps up Part One of this tutorial. To recap, we built out 99% of our UI and workflow via Storyboards, and then we worked on prompting the user for a password.
From a security perspective, you now know a bit about how to properly handle sensitive data, as well as how to generate strongly-encrypted data in order to provide maximum protection for your users. Remember, this is what they expect!
Next in Part Two of the series, we’ll wrap up this project with a few more security features and new iOS5 APIs. We’ve got a bit more explaining to do of what’s inside of the KeychainWrapper class, but I think you’ll find it a great tool for your arsenal of reusable code!
If you have any questions or comments on this tutorial or security in general, please join the discussion below!
This is a post by Chris Lowe, an iOS application developer and aspiring game developer living in San Antonio, Texas.