CFDictionaryRef issues in Swift - ios

Question

I'm converting some of my older Objective-C code to Swift so I can move away from some deprecated methods but I keep getting a crash and so far I can't seem to figure out what's causing it. I'm getting a private key from a P12 Certificate and this method seems to work fine up until I get to the part where I actually need to get the dictionary from the CFArray, and even though the array has values in it the app keeps crashing. Here's the code that I have :
func privateKeyFromCertificate(p12Name: String, withPassword password: String) -> SecKeyRef {
let resourcePath: String = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource(p12Name, ofType: "p12")!
let p12Data: NSData = NSData(contentsOfFile: resourcePath)!
let key : NSString = kSecImportExportPassphrase as NSString
let options : NSDictionary = [key : password]
var privateKeyRef: SecKeyRef? = nil
var items : CFArray?
let securityError: OSStatus = SecPKCS12Import(p12Data, options, &items)
let description : CFString = CFCopyDescription(items)
print(description)
if securityError == noErr && CFArrayGetCount(items) > 0 {
let objects : CFDictionaryRef = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(items, 0) as! CFDictionaryRef
let kString : NSString = kSecImportItemIdentity as NSString
let identity : SecIdentityRef = CFDictionaryGetValue(objects, unsafeAddressOf(kString)) as! SecIdentityRef
let securityError = SecIdentityCopyPrivateKey(identity, &privateKeyRef)
if securityError != noErr {
privateKeyRef = nil
}
}
return privateKeyRef!
}
The app keeps crashing right in the if statement on the first line where I try to get the CFDictiionaryRef from the CFArray. I added the line to print the description of the CFArray as a test and it does have values :
<CFArray 0x7fd2d2e8c2f0 [0x10b61f7b0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFBasicHash 0x7fd2d2e8c190 [0x10b61f7b0]>{type = mutable dict, count = 3,entries =>
0 : <CFString 0x10bfdd2c0 [0x10b61f7b0]>{contents = "trust"} = <SecTrustRef: 0x7fd2d2e8ad30>
1 : <CFString 0x10bfdd300 [0x10b61f7b0]>{contents = "identity"} = <SecIdentityRef: 0x7fd2d2e80390>
2 : <CFString 0x10bfdd2e0 [0x10b61f7b0]>{contents = "chain"} = <CFArray 0x7fd2d2d016e0 [0x10b61f7b0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 1, values = (
0 : <cert(0x7fd2d2e8c610) s: Client (IPHONE-WebService) i:Client (IPHONE-WebService)>)}}

Answer 1

I ended up changing some things around to get to the data, it's not the prettiest approach but it worked for me.
func privateKeyFromCertificate() -> SecKeyRef {
let certName : String = //name of the certificate//
//get p12 file path
let resourcePath: String = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource(certName, ofType: "p12")!
let p12Data: NSData = NSData(contentsOfFile: resourcePath)!
//create key dictionary for reading p12 file
let key : NSString = kSecImportExportPassphrase as NSString
let options : NSDictionary = [key : "password_for_certificate"]
//create variable for holding security information
var privateKeyRef: SecKeyRef? = nil
var items : CFArray?
let securityError: OSStatus = SecPKCS12Import(p12Data, options, &items)
//let description : CFString = CFCopyDescription(items)
//print(description)
let theArray : CFArray = items!
if securityError == noErr && CFArrayGetCount(theArray) > 0 {
let newArray = theArray as [AnyObject] as NSArray
let dictionary = newArray.objectAtIndex(0)
let secIdentity = dictionary.valueForKey(kSecImportItemIdentity as String) as! SecIdentityRef
let securityError = SecIdentityCopyPrivateKey(secIdentity , &privateKeyRef)
if securityError != noErr {
privateKeyRef = nil
}
}
return privateKeyRef!
}