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Keychain storage in iOS

For security reasons in iOS we are using Keychain to store passwords , certificates etc. Definitely it should store in secondary storage. Then only we are able to access that data later.

So my question is that where it is storing? I mean in which level? app level or device storage level or some where else?

Solution

  • This is stored at device level and the key chain can be shared across different apps.

    Please refer to discussion of kSecAttrAccessGroup for sharing keychain entities @ https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/security/Reference/keychainservices/Reference/reference.html