Any Issue With Revoking Certificate Regularly

Question

Is there any issue, if I revoke my development certificate regularly (10 times / month) ?

Let consider I'm developing 3 application using different systems with 1 development certificate and 3 provisioning profiles. Regularly I'm adding new devices to all our provisional profiles .

When installing provisioning profile in other 2 machines, Xcode Organizer shows an warning as "A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain " . So i just revoked my earlier certificate and generated new certificate request from the same machine keychain. After downloaded the new certificate, all things seems to be ok.

However other machines Xcode organizers will display the same warning when try to modify and download the provisioning profiles. So always I will fix the issue this way (revoking & regenerating new one).

So I would like to know, is there any issue, if I revoke my development certificate regularly (like account ban/block etc)?

Answer 1

There is no need to revoke your certificate every time. On the system where the development certificate is installed, go to Key Chain Access and select the both certificate and key, right click to get the option to export, and then export as a file to your desktop. Now send that .p12 file to another Mac where you can double click that .p12 file to have it install in in that system's Key Chain Access. You install the certificates in just the same way, and once you have done that it will not show that message.