User Guide

Security

Install a root certificate on your smartphone

You might not be able to connect to some Wi-Fi networks until you install a root certificate on your BlackBerry smartphone. You can install the root certificate on your computer, and then use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronise the root certificate between your smartphone and your computer. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software or contact your administrator.

View properties for a certificate

1.On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.

2.Click Security > Advanced Security Settings > Certificates.

3.Click a certificate.

Certificate properties

Property

Description

 

 

Revocation Status

This field displays the revocation status of the certificate

 

at a specified date and time.

 

 

Trust Status

This field displays the trust status of the certificate chain.

 

A certificate can be explicitly trusted (the certificate itself

 

is trusted), implicitly trusted (the root certificate in the

 

certificate chain is trusted on your BlackBerry

 

smartphone) or not trusted (the certificate isn't explicitly

 

trusted and the root certificate in the certificate chain

 

isn't trusted or doesn't exist on your smartphone).

 

 

Expiration Date

This field displays the expiry date of the certificate, as

 

specified by the certificate issuer.

 

 

Certificate Type

This field displays the certificate format. Your

 

smartphone supports X.509 and WTLS certificate

 

formats.

 

 

Public Key Type

This field displays the standard to which the public key

 

complies. Your smartphone supports RSA, DSA, Diffie-

 

Hellman and ECC keys.

 

 

Subject

This field displays information about the certificate

 

subject.

 

 

Issuer

This field displays information about the certificate

 

issuer.

 

 

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Blackberry P'9981 manual View properties for a certificate, Certificate properties, Property Description