Configuring PEAP authentication

If your organization implements PEAP authentication, Wi-Fi enabled devices must authenticate to an authentication server before they can connect to the enterprise Wi-Fi network.

PEAP authentication requires that BlackBerry devices trust the authentication server certificate. To trust the authentication server certificate, devices must trust the certification authority that issued the certificate. A certification authority that the devices and the authentication server trust mutually must generate the certificate for the authentication server.

Each device stores a list of explicitly trusted certification authority certificates. Devices that use PEAP authentication require the root certificate for the certification authority that issued the certificate.

To distribute the root certificate to devices, you can use the certificate synchronization tool in the BlackBerry Desktop Software. You must configure a Wi-Fi profile to provide the user name and password for authentication.