If your privacy and your internet security are essential to you, you surely want it to be too on your Honor 5C. Indeed, we use more and more 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 mobile phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and useful choice. For this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Honor 5C? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the actions you can take to secure the data on your Honor 5C and how to access it when it is. are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on an Honor 5C?

So we start this tutorial by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Honor 5C. We will already come back to the term reveal 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 a third party from reaching 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 access your information. data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Honor 5C or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each Honor 5C encryption method corresponds to different needs, if ever you don't have some very important things on your phone, don't bother going into encrypting all your data as if you are working. for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to analyze objectively, according to your needs and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt the data of an Honor 5C?

So we start by revealing the different methods that exist to encrypt the data of your Honor 5C . We will reveal them to you in order from the most basic to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Honor 5C.

Encrypt your Honor 5C using facial recognition

First of the possibilities that exist, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Honor 5C. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. However, there is a fundamental concern, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, if you are not afraid that someone will access your data and you want to use it just to put an easy security on your Honor 5C, you can configure it very quickly in the menu. " Security " from your phone.

Encrypt your Honor 5C using a password, visual diagram or fingerprint

We have chosen to bring together these different encryption solutions for Honor 5C in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will be in a very simple way 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 diagram that you will determine and which is really difficult to " hacker ”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three solutions will have the same function, preventing third party access to your Honor 5C. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and allow him or her to use 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 data on your Honor 5C using encryption

Last technique, and, you will have assimilated it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum safety, it is encrypt your Honor 5C with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor 5C, it may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this alternative 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 charge of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Honor 5C
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and validate the process
  • You can now access it only through the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of its Honor 5C?

Concerning data decryption of an Honor 5C , you will have assimilated it, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a technique of unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and not forget or else you risk losing access forever. your data.

In the event that you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Honor 5C, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Honor 5C.