Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
NOTE
The Certificates list includes a number of other certificates. These certificates aren't relevant to provisioning; they
manage general online security. You can filter the list to show your own keys by selecting the My Certificates cat-
egory. This filtered list doesn't include the WWDR certificate.
NOTE
By default, the certificates are valid for a year. When they expire, you must repeat the key generation and installa-
tion process. If you keep your original CSR file, you can reuse it, which is a good idea, because if you generate a
new key, your key list becomes unnecessarily cluttered.
Provisioning Devices Manually
In addition to certificate generation, the Provisioning Portal also manages your test devices and creates down-
loadable provisioning profiles. For hardware testing, the provisioning profiles are the final stage in the security
chain. When you install a profile on a device, iOS checks that the device is registered for testing, that you have
permission to install and run test builds on it, and that the provisioning profile supports a specific App ID. All
of these conditions must be true before iOS allows a test build to run on a device.
