The g-Eclipse security settings are the central point for managing trusted certificates. These are used for accessing remote servers and services that require some kind of authentication such as SSH handshake. From the central security preference page you may add or import trusted certificates, investigate your certificates or remove trusted or untrusted certificates. Besides these settings, g-Eclipse hooks itself into HTTPS/TLS connections. Whenever such a connection needs trust management, the Certificate Trust Dialog is used to ask the user about how to trust a particular certificate or certificate chain.
Subsequently, the main features of the security management are described in dedicated chapters, i.e.