If your privacy and internet security are essential to you, you certainly want it to be on your Huawei P8 as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our mobile phones instead of our laptops and important data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your mobile phone is a real safe can suddenly be a coherent and judicious choice. In this context, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Huawei P8? In this context, we will help you by first showing you the importance of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure your Huawei P8 files and how to access them when they are locked.
Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a Huawei P8?
We therefore start this article by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Huawei P8. We will already come back to the concept and explain for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files actually comes down to them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files unreadable without the decryption code. You can still much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your files.
Either way, and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some of which are heavier to set up, more difficult to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Huawei P8 from you or has access to it to recover your data.
To put it simply, each Huawei P8 encryption system corresponds to different expectations, in the event that you don't have very important things on your smartphone it is not worth going into encryption of all your data like if you work for the NSA. It is suddenly up to you to analyze objectively, according to your expectations and your desires the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from Huawei P8?
We start suddenly by revealing the different methods available to you to encrypt the files of your Huawei P8 . We will show 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 Huawei P8.
Encrypt your Huawei P8 using facial recognition
First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Huawei P8. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it has of course advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. However, there is a major problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your files and that it is just to put a simple security on your Huawei P8 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt Huawei P8 using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to bring together these different encryption alternatives for Huawei P8 in the same part because they all provide a close and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram 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 function, preventing stranger from accessing your Huawei P8. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone 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 smartphone.
Encrypt all the data on your Huawei P8 using encryption
Last technique, and, you will have assimilated it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum safety, it is encrypt your Huawei P8 with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your smartphone which can be encrypted, this intervention requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Huawei P8, it may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files 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 Huawei P8
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and validate the procedure
- You will now be able to access it only through the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of your Huawei P8?
Concerning Huawei P8 data decryption , you will understand, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you must write down somewhere and not forget or you risk losing access to your files forever.
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Huawei P8, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei P8.
