If your privacy and your internet security are very important to you, you certainly want it to be on your Oppo A8 as well. Indeed, we always use our smartphones instead of our computers and important data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making sure that your phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Oppo A8? To do this, we will help you by first showing you the interest of these security measures, then, all the measures that you can activate to secure your Oppo A8 files and how to access them when they are locked. .
What is the point of encrypting data on an Oppo A8?
We start this article by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Oppo A8. We will already come back to the term explain for those of you who do not know this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is actually the same as 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 easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your files.
Anyway and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your files. On the other hand, it will also be more difficult for a person who steals your Oppo A8 or who has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each Oppo A8 encryption mechanism is adapted to different needs, if you don't have very personal things on your phone it is not worth going into encrypting all your data as if you are working. for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to judge subjectively, according to your needs and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt data from Oppo A8?
We start by presenting you the different methods that exist to encrypt your Oppo A8 files . 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 Oppo A8.
Encrypt your Oppo A8 using facial recognition
First of the options available to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Oppo A8. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, it certainly 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 ...
Having said that, if you are not afraid that someone will access your files and you want to use it just to provide easy security on your Oppo A8, you can configure it very quickly in the menu. " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Oppo A8 with a password, visual diagram or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption possibilities for Oppo A8 in the same section because they all guarantee a close and very correct level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your mobile phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define 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 third-party access to your Oppo A8. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and allow them to use it even if you are not with them, 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 Oppo A8 using encryption
Last technique, and, you will have assimilated it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of safety, it is encrypt your Oppo A8 with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your phone which will be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Oppo A8 it may require several hours. 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 Oppo A8
- Open SSE
- Click on "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 through the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Oppo A8?
Concerning data decryption of an Oppo A8 , you will understand, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or access to files procedure and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your files forever. files.
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