OT: How to renew iOS Certificates?

[Graham Samuel]

Us rookies should stick together!

I'm just reporting at this moment that I seem to have made some progress but I am still wading through the conceptual swamp: as a result, I don't know at all what to do when things go wrong. For example, part of the process involving the Mac Keychain Access utility (yes! a third bit of software is now involved) suggests I verify that my public and private keys are lined up. My screen doesn't look like the picture in the Provisioning Portal, but as to whether this matters and what to do about it if it does, I'm totally clueless.

The danger is now that I will stumble upon the correct solution but won't  be able to explain it, even to myself. I do hope to struggle on to a better understanding. One thing for example which I found looking at Keychain access, that there are other certificates in there - some from people I've never heard of - so there is clearly some whole universe of digital certification that Apple is riding on which remains entirely alien to me... back to the grindstone.

Graham

On 5 Jan 2013, at 17:14, Roger Guay wrote:

> For what it's worth, Graham. I totally agree with you. Of course, I'm a rookie compared to you and most of those on this list.
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> I built an app that I'm donating to the SETI Institute (to insure that all proceeds go to them) and so I've become a team developer for them (as well as holding my own). I have spent months on this process of trying to upload my app to Apple to no avail. At this point I am tightly wrapped around the axle, and not sure where to even start for help.
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> Sorry for my rant and sounding so negative, but please do report back on your progress.
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> Roger
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> On Jan 5, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
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>> 2. There are some actual wrong instructions as far as i can see, particularly in XCode Organizer where there is a 'renew' button when you display a profile which is about to expire  on a device, but clicking on it doesn't do anything, not AFAIKS anyway!
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>> 3. The jargon and the underlying model of digital signing and so on, which I find very very difficult. For example the word 'Certificate' is used on the web site but not (I think) in XCode; in XCode there seems to be only one type of object, a Provisioning Profile, but I have a feeling they come in different flavours, tho as this is not explicit, I'm not sure. There are distribution profiles too: I thought I had an Ad Hoc one, but I haven't found out what happened to it. I feel that there's a game with lots of rules, but all attempts to explain the rules are somehow lost on me. It doesn't help that I find the Apple documentation convoluted and very boring, like your least favourite subject at university.
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>> Graham
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