Blackberry P'9981 manual Smart cards, About using a smart card with your smartphone

User Guide Security

Reject certificate revocation lists from unverified CRL servers

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

2.Click Security > Advanced Security Settings > Key Stores.

3.Clear the Accept Unverified CRLs check box.

4.Press the key > Save.

Your BlackBerry smartphone rejects certificate revocation lists from CRL servers that the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service cannot verify.

Smart cards

About using a smart card with your smartphone

Smart cards store certificates and private keys. You can use a smart card reader to import certificates from a smart card to the key store on your BlackBerry smartphone, but you can't import private keys. As a result, private key operations such as signing and decryption use the smart card, and public key operations such as verification and encryption use the public certificates on your smartphone.

If you use a smart card certificate to authenticate with your smartphone, after you connect your smart card reader to your smartphone, your smartphone requests authentication from the smart card each time that you unlock your smartphone.

You can install multiple smart card drivers on your smartphone, including drivers for microSD smart cards, but you can only authenticate to one smart card at a time. If you are authenticating using a microSD smart card and you want to transfer media files between your microSD smart card and your computer, you must temporarily turn off two-factor authentication or select a different authentication option.

If the S/MIME Support Package for BlackBerry smartphones is installed on your smartphone, you can use smart card certificates to send S/MIME-protected messages.

Turn on two-factor authentication

To perform this task, you must set a password for your BlackBerry smartphone and have the smart card password that you received with your smart card.

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

2.Click Security > Password.

•To use a smart card and your smartphone password to unlock your smartphone, set the Authentication Type field to Smart Card.

•To use your connected smart card reader (even if the smart card is not inserted) and your smartphone password to unlock your smartphone, set the Authentication Type field to Proximity. Select the Prompt for Device Password check box.

3.Press the key > Save.

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