If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you probably need it to be on your Honor X6 too. Indeed, we always use more of our mobile phones instead of our computers and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making your phone a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. In this context, it will be necessary to understand how to encrypt and decrypt the data of your Honor X6? In this context, we are going to help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, then all the measures that you can implement to secure the files of your Honor X6 and how to access them when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on an Honor X6?
We begin this guide by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Honor X6. First of all, we are going to come back to the concept and reveal it for those of you who are not familiar with this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is really like encrypting them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files inaccessible without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.
Whatever it is 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 longer for you to get your hands on. your files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Honor X6 or who has access to it to recover your data.
To put it simply, each encryption device of Honor X6 is adapted to different requirements, in the event that you do not have very important things on your mobile phone there is no need to start encrypting all your data as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to define personally, according to your requirements and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from an Honor X6?
We start by showing you the different solutions available to you. to encrypt the files of your Honor X6 . We'll walk you through them in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by modifying the IP address of your Honor X6.
Encrypt your Honor X6 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data of your Honor X6. This is the solution that we advise you the least, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. However, there is an important concern, the majority of 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 a simple security on your Honor X6 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.
Encrypt your Honor X6 using a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint
We have chosen to gather these different encryption possibilities for Honor X6 in the same section because they all provide similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will configure and which is really complicated to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify…
These three alternatives will have the same functionality, prevent third party access to your Honor X6. However, with the scheme and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a relative and allow him to use it even if 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 the data on your Honor X6 using encryption
Last option, and, you will have assimilated it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Honor X6 with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your mobile phone that can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor X6, this may take several hours. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to accompany you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Honor X6
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the process
- 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 your Honor X6?
As regards the Honor X6 data decryption , as you will have understood, each encryption method has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a procedure for unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or you risk losing access to your files forever.
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