Blackberry S-MIME SUPPORT PACKAGE VERSION 4.1 -, User Manual

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User Guide Supplement
About certificate information icons
In the BlackBerry® Certificate Synchronization
Manager, on the Personal Certificates, Other People’s
Certificates, and Root Certificates tab, the following
icons appear:
View certificates
In the BlackBerry® Certificate Synchronization
Manager, perform one of the following actions:
• To view certificates that are assigned to you, click
the Personal Certificates tab.
• To view certificates for another person that have
been validated by a root Certificate Authority and
to authenticate the identity of the person to
whom they are assigned, click the
Other People’s
Certificates tab.
• To view certificates that originate from a root
Certificate Authority and are considered
trustworthy, click the
Root Certificates tab.
On the server tabs, the following fields appear:
•
Certificate Label: This field specifies the name of
the certificate. By default, the name of the
certificate holder is used.
• Security: This field specifies the security level of
the certificate that contains a private key. This
field only appears on the Personal Certificates tab.
• Email Address: This field specifies the email
address of the certificate holder.
• Subject: This field specifies detailed information
about the certificate holder.
• Issuer: This field specifies detailed information
about the certificate issuer.
• Serial Number: This field specifies the certificate
serial number in hexidecimal format.
• Certificate Source: This field specifies the display
name of the certificate server on which the
certificate resides or the Microsoft® Windows®
store in which the certificate was found.
View certificate information
In the BlackBerry® Certificate Synchronization
Manager, click a server tab. Right-click a certificate.
Click
View Certificate .
• Serial Number: This field specifies the certificate
serial number in hexidecimal format.
• Issuer: Detailed information about the certificate
issuer.
• Valid From: This field specifies the date from
which the certificate is valid as set by the issuing
Certificate Authority.
• Valid To: This field specifies the expiration date
that is set by the issuing Certificate Authority.
• Subject: Detailed information about the
certificate holder.
• Public key: This field specifies the standard to
which the public ley complies. The BlackBerry
device supports Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA),
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and Elliptic
Curve Cryptography (ECC) keys.
• Subject Alternative Name: This field specifies the
email address for the certificate.
• Key Usage: This field specifies approved uses for
the key.
A selected check box indicates that the
certificate is stored on the BlackBerry device.
The icons in this column provide information
about the properties of a certificate.
The certificate chain is trusted. The certificate
chain revocation status is good, and the
certificate chain is valid.
The revocation status of the certificate chain is
unknown, or a public key in the certificate chain
is weak.
The certificate chain is untrusted, revoked,
expired, not yet valid or could not be verified.