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jonursenbach on April 14, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook deletes iPhone apps from its system

The public and private keys are stored in the app. Pulling them down the pipe is a bad idea, IMO.

kmak on April 14, 2010 [–]

For Facebook things, you can go through a session proxy instead of using the private key. I'll imagine storing a private key on the app (on the iPhone) is not desirable anyhow. The public key is, obviously, public.

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