Abstract: The creation of an application for any mobile appliance, for example Apple's iPhone, requires several elements to be present at compile time. In the Apple example of an enterprise application where an entity wishes to develop applications internally for its staff, two of these elements are the source code and a digital certificate. These must be combined in the compiler so that the application may be properly authorized to run in the appliance. Where the owner of the source code and the owner of the digital certificate are not the same, serious concerns arise because each element must be secured. An intermediating system and method are described that allows each party to cooperate securely through a third party escrow service to produce the complied application while leaving no unwanted residue of the independent parts.

Abstract: The creation of an application for any mobile appliance, for example Apple's iPhone, requires several elements to be present at compile time. In the Apple example of an enterprise application where an entity wishes to develop applications internally for its staff, two of these elements are the source code and a digital certificate. These must be combined in the compiler so that the application may be properly authorized to run in the appliance. Where the owner of the source code and the owner of the digital certificate are not the same, serious concerns arise because each element must be secured. An intermediating system and method are described that allows each party to cooperate securely through a third party escrow service to produce the complied application whilst leaving no unwanted residue of the independent parts.