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How to get in contact with team that manages DeviceCheck
Hi, I run a service that protects API calls from Apple ecosystem apps with several layers of security, one of them being DeviceCheck's server-to-server functionality. All requests arrive with a DeviceCheck token that I send to Apple to validate. Essentially I'm using the functionality listed here: The server-to-server APIs also let you verify that the token you receive comes from your app on an Apple device. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck However, occasionally I see huge bursts of traffic that contain valid DeviceCheck tokens from a scripter. I want to understand how they are generating them. It seems like they have identified a way to forge tokens. Here are traffic patterns for my site. The scale of the y-axis is somewhat arbitrary due to how I'm sampling the requests, but you get the gist. You can see the dark green bars at the bottom are general traffic, and the light green is what we rejected (we have other layers besides DeviceCheck that reject traffic). Interestingly, though, all those light green requests contained valid device check tokens! I have thousands of the tokens stored in a file for analysis. Are there known ways that Apple knows of tokens being forged? I wanted to open a TSI for this but the flow requires an Xcode project, and there is no Xcode project to demonstrate this issue. I would really like to get in contact with someone from Apple that either works on DeviceCheck or supports it. Hundreds of apps in the store depend on my service, and DeviceCheck forms a layer of security that I want to rely on. Obviously we can't solely rely on it, and we don't, but it does form an important layer of our defense. So I ask: If you know of a way to forge tokens, please comment and I'll shoot you a DM If you work at Apple and know who I can talk to, please help me work through the process to get in touch with them. Thanks, Lou
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