Certificate Trust Settings; Security Modules; View And Edit Security Modules - Nokia E63 User Manual

To view certificate details, open a certificate folder, and select
a certificate and Options
One of the following notes may appear:
Certificate not trusted
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application to use the certificate. You may want to change
the trust settings.
Expired certificate — The period of validity has ended
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for the selected certificate.
Certificate not valid yet
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yet begun for the selected certificate.
Certificate corrupted
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Contact the certificate issuer.

Certificate trust settings

Trusting a certificate means that you authorise it to verify
web pages, e-mail servers, software packages, and other
data. Only trusted certificates can be used to verify services
and software.
Important: Even if the use of certificates makes the
risks involved in remote connections and software
installation considerably smaller, they must be used correctly
in order to benefit from increased security. The existence of
a certificate does not offer any protection by itself; the
certificate manager must contain correct, authentic, or
trusted certificates for increased security to be available.
Certificates have a restricted lifetime. If "Expired certificate"
or "Certificate not valid yet" is shown, even if the certificate
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Certificate details.
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— You have not set any
— The period of validity has not
— The certificate cannot be used.
should be valid, check that the current date and time in your
device are correct.
Before changing any certificate settings, you must make sure
that you really trust the owner of the certificate and that the
certificate really belongs to the listed owner.
To change the trust settings, select a certificate and
Options Trust settings. Select an application field and
>
press the scroll key to select
the trust settings of a personal certificate.
Depending on the certificate, a list of applications that can
use the certificate is displayed:
Symbian installation
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application.
Internet — E-mail and graphics.
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App. installation — New Java™ application.
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Online certif. check
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Security modules

Select Menu Tools
> >
Security module.

View and edit security modules

To view or edit a security module, scroll to it, and press the
scroll key.
To view detailed information about a security module, select
Options Security details.
>
Security and data management
Yes or No. You cannot change
— New Symbian operating system
— Online certificate status protocol.
Settings General
> >
Security
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