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Certificates To use secure connections, the user needs to have certificates saved in the phone. Certificates can be downloaded and installed when required. There are two types of certificates: Certificate authority User certificate A trusted certificate used to verify that a Web site is genuine. If the phone has a stored trusted certificate of a certain type, it means the user can trust all Web sites which present a certificate that can be verified by the trusted certificate. Certificates are preinstalled in the phone and can be downloaded from the trusted supplier's Web page. A personal certificate that verifies the user's identity. A bank that the user has a contract with may issue this kind of certificate. Preinstalled in G900 are X.509 certificates from Baltimore, Entrust, Geotrust, GlobalSign, GTE Cybertrust, RSA, Sony Ericsson, Thawte and VeriSign. White paper G900 25 September 2008