User Guide

Certificates

Certificate status

Certificate status indicators

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The certificate has a corresponding private key that is stored on your BlackBerry® device or a smart card.

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The certificate chain is trusted and valid, and the revocation status of the certificate chain is good.

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The revocation status of the certificate chain is unknown, or a public key for a certificate in the certificate chain is weak.

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The certificate is untrusted or revoked, or a certificate in the certificate chain is untrusted, revoked, expired, not valid, or cannot be verified.

Check the revocation status of a certificate or certificate chain

1.In the device options, click Security Options.

2.Click Certificates.

3.Highlight a certificate.

4.Press the Menu key.

5.Click Fetch Status or Fetch Chain Status.

Change the trust status of a certificate

1.In the device options, click Security Options.

2.Click Certificates.

3.Highlight a certificate.

4.Press the Menu key.

5.Click Trust or Distrust.

6.If necessary, perform one of the following actions:

To trust the highlighted certificate, click Selected Certificate.

To trust the highlighted certificate and all the other certificates in the chain, click Entire Chain.

Revoke a certificate

If you revoke a certificate, the certificate is revoked only in the key store on your BlackBerry® device. Your device does not update the revocation status on the certificate authority or CRL servers.

1.In the device options, click Security Options.

2.Click Certificates.

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Blackberry 8900 manual Certificate status indicators, Change the trust status of a certificate, Revoke a certificate