In the event that your privacy and your internet security are important to you, you probably want it to be as well on your Honor 20i. In fact, we increasingly use our smartphones instead of our computers and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your smartphone is a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. In this context, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Honor 20i? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, after that, all the actions that you can activate to secure the data on your Honor 20i and how to access it when they are locked. .
Why does it make sense to encrypt data on an Honor 20i?
We therefore start this article by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Honor 20i. 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 data actually comes down to protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the data inaccessible without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.
Either way and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more difficult to decipher and therefore take longer for you to get your hands on your devices. data. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Honor 20i or has access to it to get hold of your data.
To put it simply, each Honor 20i encryption method is suitable for different expectations, if you don't have very important things on your phone then don't bother to jump into encrypting all your data as if you are working. for the NSA. It is therefore up to you, to judge personally, according to your expectations and your desires the appropriate level.
How to encrypt the data of an Honor 20i?
We therefore start by showing you the different methods available to you. to encrypt the data of your Honor 20i . We will walk you through them in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Honor 20i.
Encrypt your Honor 20i using facial recognition
First of the options that exist, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Honor 20i. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. That said, there is a major problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
That said, if you are not afraid that someone will access your data and you want to use it just to put a simple security on your Honor 20i, you can configure it very easily in the menu. " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Honor 20i using a password, visual diagram or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption alternatives for Honor 20i in the same section because they all provide a similar and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will simply be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is particularly complicated to “hack”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three solutions will have the same functionality, preventing third party access to your Honor 20i. That said, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one 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 Honor 20i using encryption
Last solution, and, you will have assimilated it, the one which makes it possible to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Honor 20i with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this manipulation requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor 20i, it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to 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 Honor 20i
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the procedure
- You will now be able to access it only thanks to the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Honor 20i?
As regards the data decryption of an Honor 20i , you will understand, each encryption method 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 this last one that you must write down somewhere and not forget or you risk losing access forever to your data.
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