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Revoke a certificate, Certificate revocation reasons – Blackberry CURVE 8980 User Manual

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7. Click Trust or Distrust.
8. If you are trusting a certificate, 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.
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On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.

2. Click Security Options.
3. Click Advanced Security Options.
4. Click Certificates.
5. Highlight a certificate.
6. Press the Menu key.
7. Click Revoke.
8. Click Yes.
9. Change the Reason field.
10. 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.

Superseded:

A new certificate is replacing an existing certificate.

Cessation of Operation:

The certificate subject no longer requires the certificate.

Certificate Hold:

You want to revoke the certificate temporarily.

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