---
id: 8292
title: "Certificate Pinning in a Mobile Application"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/certificate-pinning-in-a-mobile-application/"
published_at: "2013-04-11T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "mobile-security", "ios", "ssl", "mitm", "certificate-pinning"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8292"
lang: en
---

# Certificate Pinning in a Mobile Application

## Summary

Mobile apps are common MITM targets; certificate pinning — hardcoding trusted certificates or public keys in the app — helps by rejecting every certificate outside the pinned set.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2013-04-11T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/certificate-pinning-in-a-mobile-application/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8292