IPhone app with SSL client certs

Question

I\'m building an iphone app that needs to access a web service over https using client certificates. If I put the client cert (in pkcs12 format) in the app bundle, I\'m able to

Answer 1

If a .p12 file isn't too big you could encode it using Base64 and then embed a link in an email with a custom url scheme, e.g.:

myapp://certificate/<base 64 data>

User clicks the link, your app saves the certificate somewhere for future use. Just make sure that Mail.app on the iPhone won't mangle the email.