Symbian OS Security Architecture

The Symbian OS security architecture fundamentally consists of two high level components:

• Certificate management

• Cryptography

Together these modules/components form the basis of a number of higher level components, which include:

• Certificate management control panel item (UI to certificate management allowing control of trusted root certificates)

• Software installation (authentication/digital signatures)

• Secure comms (SSL/TLS, WTLS, IPSec, etc.)

Diagram

The following diagram shows the dependencies beween components in the Security architecture, and the names of each component's executables:

Security architecture