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.)

Diagrams

The following diagrams show the:

• Security architecture: pre-v8.0
• Security architecture: v8.0 showing component dependencies
• Security architecture: v8.0 showing individual DLL dependencies