[Justa]

It’s a user certificate. It just means if someone wants to connect to that Chinese service there is a certificate issued by a Certificate Authority common to both the User and service certificates.

It can be removed as well.

So, a big “N/A”

[catnipman]

https://www.google.com/search?q=security+certificates+authorities

[House Atreides]

Due to the VERY lax security they have I have not had an Android phone for many years. Nothing that is found on such phones would surprise me.

[bak3r]

Trusted security certificates. They are used to verify if a sites secure connection is trusted. I bet if you look there are many other issuing authorities besides China on there.

[Pollard]

I have no such thing. Even tried searching settings for certificate. I have WiFi certificate(none installed), VPN & App certificate(none installed) and CA certificate(none installed).

[Pollard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunghwa_Telecom

Taiwan Telecom. The good news is, your phone will work in Taiwan.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

It means they got control of your phone and can censure what you read. For example, words like ______, or ________, or saying _______ is a _______, are probably automatically removed. If you don’t see the words above it means I’m right and they’ve got you.

[Campion]

Short answer is that they're there so that, when you hit a website or other Internet resource whose identity is guaranteed by one of those entities you mention, your phone will believe that the website is who it says it is.

You can delete them, but it could cause websites and/or apps to stop working or issue security warnings.

[SecondAmendment]

In general these certificate authorities (CA root certificates) are used to verify the authenticity and validity of assets related to encryption, usually for web traffic (ie. https ).

Keeping these up to date is vital for your device's security, and is one of the primary reasons you need to constantly update them with vendor supplied patches.

And in some cases, using old or out of date CA root certificates may keep you from using an app, or accessing a web site.

If you feel comfortable with this stuff, try turning them off and see if any of your apps or web sites break. If you do this, I would disable one or two suspect ones at a time.

[Red Badger]

Just an ‘accident’ I’m sure...................🤷‍♂️😉.

[Nanny7]

I have both China Financial Cert. Auth. and Chunghwa Telecom on my phone. So can/should I disallow both? Will it have any affect on the normal daily function. I don’t know what a Certificate is so doubt I’d need that! ... AND what an extensive list on this menu!

[tired&retired]

I knew Freepers would have the snswers...

Thanks

[rarestia]

Certificates that keep your connections secure rely on a certificate chain up to a trusted authority. In order for certificates from that authority to be trusted, the devices have to trust that chain. Those are the authorities “trusted” by your phone. You can remove them from a device, and suddenly things might break.

You’d be shocked to know what most modern mobile devices trust. It’s kind of terrifying.