Restricting access to server to iPhone app

Question

I\'m building a client/server iPhone game, where I would like to keep third-party clients from accessing the server. This is for two reasons: first, my revenue model is to s

Answer 1

Who is your adversary here? Both methods fail to prevent cracked copies of the application from connecting to the server. I think that's the most common problem with iPhone game (or general) development for paid apps.

However, this may protect the server from other non-iPhone clients, as it deters programmers from reverse engineering the network packet interfaces between the iPhone and the server.