From the course: Advanced iOS Development: Keychain Access
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Attribute keys and values - iOS Tutorial
From the course: Advanced iOS Development: Keychain Access
Attribute keys and values
- The keychain allows you to store different types or classes of data. We'll be focusing on passwords. And we can also use that same class for text data like notes or credit card numbers which you always want to protect. These classes map to tables in the encrypted database where Keychain stores the data. For each class, there are various attributes that map to columns in the tables. The classes are generic password, Internet password, certificate, key, and identity, which is a combination of certificate and key. The attributes vary from one class to another but there's a lot of crossover too. When we're writing to the keychain, you specify the class and the attributes to store. The attributes help you store more data but can also help when it's time to find the data. Like searching in a database, you tell the keychain which item or items you're looking for by specifying the attributes to match. Also when you're…
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