I am developing an iPhone app that will incorporate SSL for encryption
of network communication. The encrypted connection will be between
average users and their home servers. Most of the time I envision
people having SSL certificates that cannot be validated with the
default iPhone root certificates. When this occurs, I would like to
show a screen with information from the certificate so people can
manually verify that it matches the certificate of their home server.

Given the screen real estate of a mobile device, what information
would you present to the user, and what would you leave out? I am
thinking of presenting just the issuer, subject, validity time frame,
and signature, leaving out things like serial number, signature and
key algorithms, and the public key itself. Is this reasonable?

Thanks,
Chase Douglas
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