User Guide

Certificates for your smartphone

Certificate properties

Depending on the certificate, more properties or fewer properties might appear in the certificate synchronization tool of the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

Property

Description

 

 

Certificate Label

This field displays the name of the certificate. By default, the certificate synchronization tool

 

displays the name of the certificate subject.

 

 

Security Level

This field displays the security level of the certificate if the certificate contains a private key.

 

 

Email Address

This field displays the email address of the certificate subject.

 

 

Certificate Source

This field displays the name of the certificate server that the certificate is located on or the

 

name of the Windows key store on the computer that the certificate is located on.

 

 

Serial Number

This field displays the certificate serial number in hexadecimal format.

 

 

Signature Algorithm

This field displays the algorithm that the certificate issuer used to generate the digital

 

signature.

 

 

Issuer

This field displays detailed information about the certificate issuer.

 

 

Valid From

This field displays the date that the certificate issuer specified as the start date for the

 

certificate.

 

 

Valid To

This field displays the date that the certificate issuer specified as the expiration date for the

 

certificate.

 

 

Subject

This field displays detailed information about the certificate subject.

 

 

Public Key

This field displays the standard that the public key complies to. Your BlackBerry smartphone

 

supports RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and ECC keys.

 

 

Subject Alternative

This field displays an alternate email address for the certificate, if known.

Name

 

 

 

Authority Information

This field displays the location of and access method for the OCSP status responders.

Access

 

 

 

Key Usage

This field displays approved uses for the public key.

 

 

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Blackberry 7.1 manual Certificate properties, Property Description

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