Nokia 9500 Communicator - Managing certificates

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Managing certificates
Personal certificates are certificates that are issued to you. They are listed on the

User

page.

Authority certificates are on the

Other

page. They are used by some services, such as banking, for checking the validity of other

certificates.
To add certificates, select

Security

>

Certificate manager

. Press

Add

to add a new certificate. You can then browse for the

certificate file. Press

Delete

to remove a selected certificate.

To check the authenticity of a certificate, select

Security

>

Certificate manager

. Select a certificate, and press

View details

. The

Issued to:

field identifies the owner of this certificate. Make sure that this is the name of the party to whom the certificate

belongs. The

Fingerprint:

field uniquely identifies the certificate. Contact the help desk or customer service of the owner of the

certificate and ask for the MD5 fingerprint of the certificate. Compare the fingerprint with the one shown in the dialog to check

whether they match.

Tip: Check the authenticity of a certificate each time you add a new certificate.

To change the trust settings of a certificate, select

Security

>

Certificate manager

. Select the certificate, press

View details

, and

press

Trust settings

. Depending on the certificate, a list of the applications that can use the selected certificate is shown. Select

an application field, and change the value to

Yes

or

No

. Note that you cannot change the trust settings of a personal certificate.

To change the private key store password, select

Security

>

Certificate manager

, select the

Password

page, and press

Change

password

. Enter the current password, press

OK

, and enter the new password twice. You need the private key store password

when using personal certificates. The private key store contains the secret keys that come with personal certificates.