How do I store a password in Cocoa preferences?

Question

I was going to store a password in my Cocoa application in the NSUserDefaults but then I realized that it is stored in plain text.

How do you store password credentials for Cocoa applications?

Answer 1

Passwords should be stored in the Keychain. You should probably look at the Keychain Services Programming Guide to begin with. The Keychain exists on both iOS and OS X platforms.