If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you surely want it to be so on your Fairphone 4. In fact, we are always using more of our smartphones instead of our computers and important data. are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making your phone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and useful choice. In this context, it will be necessary to understand how to encrypt and decrypt your Fairphone 4 data? In this context, we are going to help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, then, all the actions that you can activate to secure the data of your Fairphone 4 and how to access it when it is locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Fairphone 4?
We start this guide by quickly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Fairphone 4. We will first of all come back to the concept and describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting data is in fact a matter of protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the data indecipherable without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.
Whatever it is and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more difficult to decrypt and therefore longer for you to access your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Fairphone 4 or has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To put it simply, each Fairphone 4 encryption method is adapted to different expectations, if you ever don't have very personal things on your mobile phone, there's no need to start encrypting all your data as if you work for the NSA. 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 Fairphone 4?
We start by presenting you the different solutions that are offered to you. to encrypt the data of your Fairphone 4 . We will present them to you in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Fairphone 4.
Encrypt your Fairphone 4 via facial recognition
First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt your Fairphone 4 data. This is the technique that we least suggest to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is one major problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if ever you are not afraid that someone will access your data and it is just to put a simple security on your Fairphone 4 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.
Encrypt your Fairphone 4 with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption options for Fairphone 4 in the same section because they all provide similar and very correct level of security. These three options are different, one will simply be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you for when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will determine and which is really difficult to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify…
These three alternatives will have the same functionality, preventing access to a third party to your Fairphone 4. Nevertheless, with the scheme and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a loved one and allow him to use it even in the in case you are not with him, something impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your mobile phone.
Encrypt all data on your Fairphone 4 using encryption
Last option, and, you will understand, the one that ensures maximum security is encrypt your Fairphone 4 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your mobile phone that can be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Fairphone 4, this may exceed an hour. We therefore suggest this alternative for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Fairphone 4
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and confirm the operation
- You will now be able to access it only through the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of his Fairphone 4?
Concerning decrypting data from a Fairphone 4 , as you will have understood, each encryption manipulation has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you must write down on a piece of paper and do not forget or you risk losing access forever to your data.
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become the king of Fairphone 4, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: 4 Fairphone.
