If ever your privacy and security on the internet is essential for you, you probably want it to be so on your Crosscall core M5 as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our phones instead of our computers and essential data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Ensuring that your smartphone is a real safe can therefore be a logical and useful choice. In this context, it will be necessary to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Crosscall core M5? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the actions you can take to secure the files of your Crosscall core M5 and how to access them when 'they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Crosscall core M5?

So we start this tutorial by quickly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Crosscall core M5. We will first of all come back to the term describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is actually the same as protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your files.

Whatever it is and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more difficult to decrypt and therefore longer for you to get your hands on your files. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Crosscall core M5 or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each Crosscall core M5 encryption mechanism corresponds to different expectations, in the event that you don't have very important things on your phone, there's no need to start encrypting all your data. as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to judge objectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the level of security that best suits you.

How to encrypt data from a Crosscall core M5?

We therefore start by exposing you to the different techniques available to you. to encrypt the files of your Crosscall core M5 . We will present them to you in the order of the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Crosscall core M5.

Encrypt your Crosscall core M5 using facial recognition

First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Crosscall core M5. This is the solution that we advise you the least, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. That said, there is a significant problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, in the event that you are not afraid of someone accessing your files and it is just to put an easy security on your Crosscall core M5 that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your phone.

Encrypt your Crosscall core M5 using a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint

We decided to gather these different encryption solutions for Crosscall core M5 in the same part because they all provide a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will simply be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is really difficult to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify…

These three possibilities will have the same functionality, prevent access to a third party to your Crosscall core M5. That said, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a relative and give him the possibility of using it even if you are not with him, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your phone.

Encrypt all the data on your Crosscall core M5 using encryption

Last option, and, you will have saved it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Crosscall core M5 using a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all of your phone's data which will be encrypted, this technique requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Crosscall core M5 it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Crosscall core M5
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Define a password and validate the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of your Crosscall core M5?

As regards the decrypting data from a Crosscall core M5 , you will have assimilated it, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create a technique for unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to it forever. your files.

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