How to securely include secret key/signature in iOS/Cocoa apps

Question

I want to include a secret key into an iOS app so that the app can \"prove\" to a certain server that a request is coming from the app itself and not some other system. I k

Answer 1

I agree with @Nubis that there is no 100% bulletproof way to do it.

However, this library seems like a pragmatic solution to the problem:

https://github.com/UrbanApps/UAObfuscatedString

It probably won't save you from a highly motivated attacker, but it won't make their life easy.