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Change the trust status of a certificate, Revoke a certificate, Certificate revocation reasons – Blackberry Pearl 8100 Series User Manual

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5. Click Fetch Status or Fetch Chain Status.

Change the trust status of a certificate

1. In the device options, click Security Options.

2. Click Certificates.
3. Highlight a certificate.

4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Trust or Distrust.

6. If necessary, perform one of the following actions:

• To trust the highlighted certificate, click Selected Certificate.
• To trust the highlighted certificate and all the other certificates in the chain, click Entire Chain.

Revoke a certificate

If you revoke a certificate, the certificate is revoked only in the key store on your BlackBerry® device. Your device does not update the
revocation status on the certificate authority or CRL servers.

1. In the device options, click Security Options.

2. Click Certificates.
3. Highlight a certificate.

4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Revoke.

6. Click Yes.

7. Change the Reason field.

8. Click OK.

To cancel a certificate hold, highlight the certificate. Press the Menu key. Click Cancel Hold.

Certificate revocation reasons

Unknown:

The revocation reason does not match any of the predefined reasons.

Key Compromise:

A person who is not the key subject might have discovered the private key value.

CA Compromise:

Someone might have revealed the private key of the certificate issuer.

Change in Affiliation:

The certificate subject no longer works for the organization.

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