User Guide

Security

3.Press the key > Show Media Card Certs or Import Media Card PGP Keys.

To view the details for a certificate or PGP key, press the key > Details.

View details for a PGP key

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

2.Click Security > Advanced Security Settings > PGP Keys.

3.Click a PGP key.

PGP key properties

Property

Description

 

 

Revocation Status

This field displays the revocation status of the PGP key at a specified date and

 

time.

 

 

Trust Status

This field displays the trust status of the PGP key. A PGP key can be explicitly

 

trusted (the PGP key itself is trusted), implicitly trusted (the PGP key is associated

 

with a private key on your BlackBerry smartphone), or not trusted (the PGP key

 

isn't explicitly trusted and isn't associated with a trusted PGP key on your

 

smartphone, and a chain of digital signatures to a trusted key doesn't exist).

 

 

Creation Date

This field displays the date that the PGP Universal Server generated the PGP key.

 

 

Expiration Date

This field displays the date that the PGP Universal Server specified as the expiry

 

date of the PGP key.

 

 

Email Address

This field displays the email address that is associated with the PGP key. Multiple

 

Email Address fields might appear.

 

 

Public Key Type

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

 

supports RSA, DSA and Diffie-Hellman keys.

 

 

Key Usage

This field displays approved uses of the PGP key.

 

 

Fingerprint

This field displays the PGP key fingerprint in hexadecimal format.

 

 

Send a PGP key

When you send a PGP key, your BlackBerry smartphone sends the public key, but doesn't send the corresponding private key.

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

2.Click Security > Advanced Security Settings > PGP Keys.

3.Highlight a PGP key.

4.Press the key > Send via Email or Send via PIN.

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Blackberry P'9981 manual View details for a PGP key, PGP key properties, Send a PGP key