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kSecUseAuthenticationContext Support #104

@juantrias

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@juantrias

We are developing an application that stores an encryption key on a VALSecureEnclaveValet protected by VALAccessControlTouchIDCurrentFingerprintSet. We want to protect the key with TouchID but we do not want to request the TouchID everytime we need the key because we use it at almost every screen of our app to decrypt the data displayed on screen. We want to request TouchID once and keep access to the key "authenticated" while our session is alive. Keeping the key in memory for a long time is not an option for us.

We have achieved the behavior we want passing a LAContext object at kSecUseAuthenticationContext at the [VALValet stringForKey:options:] options dictionary. But this is a protected method and we cannot call it without modifying your library code. Do you plan to add the possibility to pass a LAContext to [VALSecureEnclaveValet stringForKey]? Or could you suggest me a better way to implement this functionality?

Thanks

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