Core Data - Encryption / Decryption on iOS

Question

I know that in iOS, if the .sqlite is updated / read by SQL statement, then SQLCipher can be used to do encryption and decryption.

Is there any suggestion if Core Data is used instead ? The requirements are:

Thanks

Have a look on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/523482/core-data-vs-sqlite-3 — Andy, Dec 09 '11 at 07:46

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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If you want the SQLite to be encrypted when the device is locked only, then the on-disk encryption feature introduced in iOS 4 is your answer.

Otherwise, you may need to encrypt stuff programmatically. Cf. Core Data SQLite encryption?.

But AFAIK, there's no built-in support of any SQLite encryption feature in Core Data.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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answered Apr 10 '12 at 15:10

Mick F

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