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iosobjective-cswiftsecuritysecurity.framework

SecItemAdd returns -25299 when adding second certificate


When trying to add second certificate fails with -25299 (The item already exists.). They have different kSecAttrLabel. Before trying to delete it fails as well with code -25300 (The item cannot be found.).

Maybe someone knows what is wrong with this code? Did I miss some attributes?

if let cer1 = "cert1".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding),
   let cer2 = "cert2".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
       addCertificate(cer1, label: "TestCertificate_1")
       addCertificate(cer2, label: "TestCertificate_2")
}

    func addCertificate(certificate: NSData, label: String) {
        let query = [
            String(kSecClass) : kSecClassCertificate,
            String(kSecAttrLabel) : label,
            String(kSecValueData) : certificate
        ]
        var status = SecItemDelete(query)
        if status != noErr {
            print("Error deleting cer from keychain. Error: \(status)")
        }

        status = SecItemAdd(query, nil)

        if status != noErr {
            print("Error adding cer to keychain. Error: \(status)")
        }
    }

// Output:
// Error deleting cer from keychain. Error: -25300 (The item cannot be found.)
// Error deleting cer from keychain. Error: -25300 (The item cannot be found.)
// Error adding cer to keychain. Error: -25299 (The item already exists.)

Solution

  • For a keychain item of class kSecClassCertificate, the primary key is the combination of kSecAttrCertificateType, kSecAttrIssuer and kSecAttrSerialNumber.

    let query = [
                String(kSecClass) : kSecClassCertificate,
                String(kSecAttrLabel) : label,
                String(kSecValueData) : certificate,
                String(kSecAttrSerialNumber) : serialNumber
            ]