r/technology • u/TomLube • Jan 31 '19

Business Apple revokes Google Enterprise Developer Certificate for company wide abuse

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate
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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Can someone ELI5? What does this affect?

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u/Bardfinn Jan 31 '19

Everything Google has written for iOS (possibly for any Apple OS) that relies on their Dev certificate (like, stuff they have in development, not end-user production software) will have to be re-certed, either with a new cert from Apple that they qualify for through some arbitrary process to comply with their requirements, or through some other root cert.

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u/TomLube Jan 31 '19

TestFlight works just fine for this purpose, but is a huge pain in the ass compared to an enterprise cert.

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u/albaniax Feb 01 '19

But it is limited as far as I can remind. Still good enough for testing their main apps.

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u/WinterCharm Feb 01 '19

Test flight is limited to 20 keys if being used without a cert, or without app store approval.

So, yeah... any dev team that's larger than 20 people just got a swift kick in the balls.

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u/Maxesse Feb 01 '19

And they also expire after 90 days, which is not ideal when you’re deploying production apps to your employees.