Re: Using Keychain for storing archived object ?

FROM : Marc Liyanage
DATE : Sun Nov 28 21:29:13 2004

On 26.11.2004, at 22:31, Kubernan @ 10191 Technologies wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My application creates an object that is the result of NSKeyedArchiver
> in NSData type.
> Instead of saving this object in an unsafe external file (using
> [NSData writeToFile ...] )
> i thought to use KeyChain as a secured container such as :
>     myObject -> archiver -> NSData -> store in keyChain
> The object itself is small enough (4ko).


If the data ever gets too big to be stored in the Keychain, you could
do what I *think* Safari does for its form AutoFill data:
Write the data to an encrypted file, e.g. encrypted using AES, and
store the encryption key in the Keychain.