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Smart cards
About smart cards
Two-factor authentication prerequisites
Turn on two-factor authentication
Unlock your BlackBerry device when two-factor
authentication is turned on
Connect your BlackBerry device to the BlackBerry
Smart Card Reader
Import a certificate from a smart card
Set the length of time without a connection before the
BlackBerry Smart Card Reader turns off
Set the activity level of the BlackBerry Smart Card
Reader
Set the Bluetooth range for the BlackBerry Smart Card
Reader
Set when the Bluetooth connection stops
Set options to clear secure pairing information for the
BlackBerry Smart Card Reader
About smart cards
Certificates and private keys are stored on smart cards.
You can import certificates to your BlackBerry® device
key store, but private keys can be stored only on smart
cards. 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 device .
Using a smart card reader, you can download
certificates from your smart card to your device, use a
smart card certificate to authenticate with your device,
and send Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (S/MIME) messages with your smart card
certificates.
If you use a smart card certificate to authenticate with
your device, after you connect the smart card reader to
your device, your device sends an authentication
request to the smart card each time that you unlock
your device.
Related topics
Import a certificate from a smart card (See page 28.)
Turn on two-factor authentication (See page 27.)
Two-factor authentication
prerequisites
•
Verify that you have set a BlackBerry® device
password.
•
Verify that you know the smart card password. You
should have received this password when you
received your smart card.
Related topic
Turn on two-factor authentication (See page 27.)
Turn on two-factor authentication
1.
In the device options, click Security Options.
2. Click General Settings.
3. Set the User Authenticator field to Enabled.
4. Press the Menu key.
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