Nokia E52 - Certificate trust settings

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Certificate trust settings

Select

Menu

>

Ctrl. panel

>

Settings

and

General

>

Security

>

Certificate

management

.

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.

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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 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

. Scroll

to an application field, and press the scroll key to select

Yes

or

No

. You cannot change

the trust settings of a personal certificate.

Depending on the certificate, a list of applications that can use the certificate is

displayed:

Symbian installation — New Symbian operating system application.

Internet — E-mail and graphics.

App. installation — New Java application.

Online certif. check — Online certificate status protocol.