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iOS

Vinny Harris-Riviello
Vinny Harris-Riviello
11,898 Points
Posted by Vinny Harris-Riviello
Vinny Harris-Riviello
11,898 Points

Where to store API keys for iOS app

Hi in the Weather App we created, we had an API key and secret to use to access the API. For the lecture we just used private, but Prasan mentioned that in real that would probably not be enough and he would do something different. Does anyone have some ideas on how to protect API keys on real life scenarios.

Thanks

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Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points
Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points

There is no perfect solution to this. If the hacker is good, he/she will eventually find it out no matter what you do. There are ways to prevent that further by obfuscating the key using hashes and such. In real-life, if you're on a team, my suggestion would be to plan that with the backend guys. I'm sure they'll know a ton about security.