Nokia N-Gage Extended User Manual page 48

Certif. management
In the Certificate management main view, you can see a
list of authority certificates that have been stored in your
game deck. Press to see a list of user certificates, if
available.
Glossary: Authority certificates are used by some
Browser services, such as banking services, for
checking signatures or server certificates or other
authority certificates.
Glossary: User certificates are issued to users by a
Certifying Authority.
Options in the certificate
management main view: Certificate
settings, Mark/Unmark, Help, and Exit.
Digital certificates should be used if you:
• want to connect to an online bank or another site or
remote server for actions that involve transferring
confidential information, or
• want to reduce the risk of viruses or other malicious
software and be sure of the authenticity of software
when downloading and installing software.
Glossary: Digital certificates are used to verify the
origin of Browser pages and installed software.
However, they can only be trusted if the origin of the
certificate is known to be authentic.
Important: The existence of a certificate does not
offer any protection by itself; the certificate manager
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must contain correct, authentic, or trusted certificates
for increased security to be available.
Viewing certificate details - checking
authenticity
You can only be sure of the correct identity of a Browser
gateway or a server when the signature and the period of
validity of a Browser gateway or server certificate have
been checked.
You will be notified on the game deck's display:
• if the identity of the browser server or gateway is not
authentic or
• if you do not have the correct security certificate in
your game deck.
details, Delete, Trust
To check certificate details, scroll to a certificate and select
Options→ Certificate
details, Certificate management checks the validity of the
certificate and one of the following notes may appear:
• Certificate not trusted
to use the certificate. For more information, see the
next section 'Changing the trust settings of an
authority certificate'.
• Expired certificate
the selected certificate.
• Certificate not valid yet
yet begun for the selected certificate.
• Certificate corrupted
Contact the certificate issuer.
details. When you open certificate
- You have not set any application
- The period of validity has ended for
- The period of validity has not
- The certificate cannot be used.