How to see the keychain for iphone simulator

Question

I have developed an iPhone application in which I am encrypting and decrypting data using public and private key. I want to see this keys in the Keychain. I got the keychain entry for mac applications under Applications/utilities, but what is the location for iPhone simulator Keychain and Keychain for iPhone OS itself on device.

Whitneywhitson

Answer 1

The iPhone simulator keychain is stored in ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/<Version Number>/Library/Keychains/ and is in sqlite3 DB format. The location of the file on the device itself is unimportant, as you can only access it through the keychain API (but a path with a few similarities to the simulator path wouldn't surprise anyone).

Accentuation

Starting with iPhone SDK 3.2, the simulator data is stored in separate directories for each OS version inside ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator. For instance if it's the 3.0 simulator that's running, the keychain will be stored in ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/3.0/Library/Keychains. – Camey

I dont have any iphone simulator folder in application support... what am i suppose to do now – Regimen

Have a look at the script charles proxy uses to install it's CA into the simulator keychain it's pretty cool. charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs charlesproxy.com/assets/… – Ursas

What is the command to access this via keychain. Can I see it in the keychain application? – Joelie

Starting with iOS 8 SDK, you can find keychains in the ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/<Simulator Device ID>/data/Library/Keychains – Fuzzy

I can see the keychain in the path, but even after saving information in keychain, I find that the keychain-2.db debug file's timestamp is not updated. Any idea as to which file to see and confirm that data saved, in iOS simulator. – Designed

Answer 2

You must acces the keychain through the keychain API, just like explained in this example.

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