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[stefan.winter AT restena.lu]

Hi,

> After downloading the profile for the University of Oslo from  
> cat.eduroam.org <http://cat.eduroam.org/> I noticed that it contains  
> gibberish:

I am rather sure that it does not contain gibberish.

Just because a human being can`t read it, it is not necessarily nonsense :-)

> plutil -lint ~/Downloads/eduroam-OS_X-UiO.mobileconfig
> /Users/thomas/Downloads/eduroam-OS_X-UiO.mobileconfig: Unexpected  
> character 0 at line 1
>
> It still works for the GUI end-user, but from the commandline you  
> will need to edit the file and remove the gibberish in the beginning  
> of the profile if you want to play with it.

The non-gibberish binary data is an inline S/MIME signature of an iOS  
accredited code signing certificate (the bulk of it is at the *end* of  
the file though).

Its very purpose is to PREVENT people from playing with it, and to  
give end users who import it confidence that it has not been tampered  
with. The UI shows this with the green "Verified" checkmark symbol.

Why do you feel the need to "play with it"? If there is something that  
needs changing, we are happy to take feature requests and/or bug  
reports.

> I assume the problem is easily fixed as it probarly sneaked into the  
> profile when handled by an editor or Windows.

Yeah, right. Because we write all profiles by hand in Notepad ;-)

Greetings,

Stefan Winter