Service Security Crash Course - Preface

In the past several months I've been challenged to work on few e-banking and e-government iPhone applications which required secure communication with the appropriate backends. This series of posts called "Service Security Crash Course" should cover what I have learned while working on these projects. The audience level is "advanced newbie" :), that is the information provided should be enough to bring anyone from a level of "I have heard about certificates" to a level of "it would be much easier if we use certificates from a valid CA" :)

The series should cover:

• Keys
• Data scrambling (a.k.a Encryption)
• Certificates
• SSL
• XML Security

All the posts in the series would be prefixed SSCC (as short for Service Security Crash Course)