Security implications of storing a password in Settings.bundle and getting with CFPreferencesCopyAppValue
Apologies for the seeming obviousness of this question, but for whatever reason I haven't been able to find a definitive answer in the Apple documentation about where and how Settings.bundle password info is stored. My question: if I need to store some credentials for an app, and I use a Settings.bundle so that the password is entered into a PSTextFieldSpecifier textfield in Apple's Settings area with IsSecure = YES, and then I access the value from my app using CFPreferencesCopyAppValue, never writing it out to NSUserDefaults and only sending it over the network securely, how secure is that