Category: Signing and Certification

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Improvements in the manufacturer approved developer certificates

If your application uses capabilities (other than user-grantable), you need a developer certificate to be able to run the application on a device. In case you need some sensitive capabilities (AllFiles, CommDD, DiskAdmin, NetworkControl, MultimediaDD, DRM, TCB) and/or a developer certificate for more than 100 devices (IMEIs), you need to go through manufacturer approved devcerts channel. Nokia with Symbian has recently launched a new developer certificate tool for manufacturer approved developer certificates. The most significant changes with the new tool are:

• Capability request form is not needed anymore. It has been combined with the tool itself, so all you need to do is create a .csr file with DevCertRequest tool and upload that via www.symbiansigned.com (Request Phone Manufacturer Approved DevCerts path).

• Once your developer certificate is approved, new requests with same capabilities and more IMEIs will be approved automatically. So you can use an approved developer certificate as a template and make new .csr file with added IMEIs.

• Expiration date has been added to the view of the certificates. It is counted from the date when the developer certificate has been approved. A granted developer certificate is valid for 6 months.

• There is more information provided to the developer through the web interface and all the communication between Nokia and the developer happens via the toll (no e-mail communication needed anymore).