Friday, September 11, 2015

Simple Xamarin iOS Keychain code

I had searched and found a few decent examples of KeyChain (iOS) usage in Xamarin

I had searched and found a few decent examples of KeyChain (iOS) usage in Xamarin but not exactly the code I was happy with.

So this is more of a mashup of pieces of the good code I found formed into one utility class.

The key essentials are find an existing key, create a new key, delete a previous key. The examples I saw tried to do all of this in one method, it's better to break things up, have one method per responsilibity.

using Security;
using Foundation;

public class KeyChain
{

    public string ValueForKey(string key)
    {
        var record = ExistingRecordForKey (key);
        SecStatusCode resultCode;
        var match = SecKeyChain.QueryAsRecord(record, out resultCode);

        if (resultCode == SecStatusCode.Success)
            return NSString.FromData (match.ValueData, NSStringEncoding.UTF8);
        else
            return String.Empty;
    }

    public void SetValueForKey(string value, string key) 
    {
        var record = ExistingRecordForKey (key);            
        if (value.IsNullOrEmpty())
        {
            if (!ValueForKey(key).IsNullOrEmpty())
                RemoveRecord(record);

            return;
        }

        // if the key already exists, remove it
        if (!ValueForKey(key).IsNullOrEmpty())
            RemoveRecord(record);

        var result = SecKeyChain.Add(CreateRecordForNewKeyValue(key, value));
        if (result != SecStatusCode.Success)
        {
            throw new Exception(String.Format("Error adding record: {0}", result));
        }
    }

    private SecRecord CreateRecordForNewKeyValue(string key, string value)
    {
        return new SecRecord(SecKind.GenericPassword)
        {
            Account = key,
            Service = ServiceName,
            Label = key,
            ValueData = NSData.FromString(value, NSStringEncoding.UTF8),
        };
    }

    private SecRecord ExistingRecordForKey(string key)
    {
        return new SecRecord(SecKind.GenericPassword)
        {
            Account = key,
            Service = ServiceName,
            Label = key,
        };
    }

    private bool RemoveRecord(SecRecord record)
    {
        var result = SecKeyChain.Remove(record);
        if (result != SecStatusCode.Success)
        {
            throw new Exception(String.Format("Error removing record: {0}", result));
        }

        return true;
    }        
}

28 comments:

  1. Thank you so much Mark! I just spent the last three hours looking for something this simple. Most examples I had found seemed overly complicated and not generic enough to handle simple key/value data. I can't believe there aren't more examples of using Keychain for Xamarin iOS out there, anyways thank you!

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  2. Can You Provide Example of "How to share Keychain between iOS apps in XAMARIN"
    Reference:
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4115744/how-to-share-keychain-data-between-ios-applications
    http://evgenii.com/blog/sharing-keychain-in-ios/

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  3. what is ServiceName in your code? thanks!

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    1. Actually not sure, I believe it's an extra value I forgot to take out of the code, there is a Service property on the SecRecord and you can set it to whatever you like. So you could pass in another string into the method (key, value, serviceName). I believe the purpose of Service separates the sets of key values into groups by Service.

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  4. Hi mark.
    Your explanation is great. However i'm trying to do something similar but with a bit difference.
    Could you please read my thread here

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49381392/c-sharp-how-to-store-rsa-key-pair-on-ios-keychain-xamarin

    and if possible give me some tips please?
    Many thanks in advance

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