Question

I am developing an iPhone application which requires the sending of an “Secure SMS”, i am able ot send the sms from within our application using MFMessageComposeViewController method, but i am not getting any help on how we can send an SMS securily like the text should be encrypted from client side(iPhone) and it should be decrypted at server side and also vice versa.

any sample code or ideas would be appreciated.

thanks
shiva.

Answer 1

http://septicus.com/products/opensource/ is a valuable resource that let you use openSSL in Cocoa environment.

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from main.m of SSCrypt framework

// generate a private key
NSData *privateKeyData = [SSCrypto generateRSAPrivateKeyWithLength:2048];
// generate a public key from the private key data
NSData *publicKeyData = [SSCrypto generateRSAPublicKeyFromPrivateKey:privateKeyData];

And

crypto = [[SSCrypto alloc] initWithPublicKey:publicKeyData privateKey:privateKeyData];

NSString *topSecret = @"Billy likes Mandy";
[crypto setClearTextWithString:topSecret];

NSData *encryptedTextData = [crypto encrypt];
NSData *decryptedTextData = [crypto decrypt];

NSLog(@"Top Secret: %@", topSecret);
NSLog(@"Encrypted: %@", [encryptedTextData encodeBase64]);
NSLog(@"Decrypted: %s", [decryptedTextData bytes]);

[crypto release];