Consider using `objc2-security`?

[madsmtm]

security-framework-sys contains a bunch of hand-written bindings to the security framework, and is what security-framework provides a high-level wrapper on top of. objc2-security is an auto-generated alternative (that I maintain), which has a bunch of benefits:

• Better type-safety around enums.
  • E.g. kSecAccessControlOr is wrapped into SecAccessControlCreateFlags::Or, just like the Swift binding, or like security-framework does.
• Bindings are marked with nullability information.
  • Nullable parameters use the rusty Option<&CFString> instead of CFStringRef.
  • Non-null parameters use simply &CFString.
• Automatic memory management.
  • E.g. SecAccessControlCreateWithFlags returns Option<CFRetained<SecAccessControl>>, that is, a smart pointer to SecAccessControl which will ensure that CFRelease is called at the correct time. No more need for knowing when to call Self::wrap_under_create_rule(...) vs. Self::wrap_under_get_rule(...).
• Uses objc2-core-foundation (which is similarly auto-generated, with the same benefits) instead of core-foundation.
  • Small usability improvement: string.as_CFTypeRef() is unnecessary, as CFString derefs to CFType.

This would necessarily be a breaking change, so it'd be nice if the move towards not exposing CFString/CFType/... in security-framework's public API was done in the same release (as I expect objc2-security to have at least a few more major versions before settling on v1.0).

I have a WIP branch over here that can be used to see what some of this would look like.

An alternative could be to merge security-framework's functionality into objc2-security itself, not yet sure which option I prefer.

(Btw, I see that you've marked this as "maintenance status = looking-for-maintainer", I could be interested in helping out).

[kornelski]

Thanks for the offer. Given that the whole networking part of Security.framework has been deprecated by Apple, I'm thinking about deprecating it in this crate too, and replacing its uses with network.framework bindings. Do you plan to add bindings for the Network.framework?

[madsmtm]

Yes, as part of madsmtm/objc2#786 (I had kinda forgotten about it until now).