How can I access identity profiles and certificates with iPhone SDK?

Question

I am trying to verify the user identity on my application using a certificate / identity that the user has stored by opening a .cer / .p12 attached to an email. The certificate

Answer 1

You talked about the Security framework already, but did you try the following functions in the doc?

I personally never tried/had to do this myself, but anyway it seems that there are some functions like SecCertificateCreateWithData in the framework, so you should be able to build a SecCertificateRef from some NSData/CFDataRef… data which is the content of your mail attachment.

From there you may use it as any other certificate using the other functions (like you would do for a certificate extracted from the Keychain)

Well this is only a guess after simply reading the documentation but let's give it a try as the doc seems to indicate it is the way to go.