26 Jan

Apple App Transport Security (ATS) and ASA self-signed SSL certificate

Apple care about users privacy and security quite well. Of course it’s a matter of opinion but Apple put strong focus on encryption and peer authentication. In 2015 Apple introduced App Transport Security (ATS) as part of their Network Framework With every release they are putting more and more responsibility on developers and content operators to provide proper traffic encryption proper certificate signing and chain etc. That means if application is trying to connect to HTTP server that does not support latest TLSv1.2 connection should fail.

There is no doubt that ATS is good for end users and that’s right direction every corporation should follow. But switching to TLSv1.2 is not something that can be done just like that, obtaining signed certificate expensive option, especially for development environments or if you are writing apps to just test something or for fun. Self-signed certificates are the solution for such cases but there are few problems that we can encounter.

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