If your privacy and internet security are important to you, you probably need it as well on your Samsung Galaxy A20. Indeed, we increasingly use our mobile phones instead of our laptops and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your device is a real safe can therefore be a logical and judicious choice. To do this, you are going to have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A20? 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 Samsung Galaxy A20 and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung Galaxy A20?
We start this article by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Samsung Galaxy A20. We will first of all come back to the term reveal for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer notion of "Encryption". Encrypting data is in fact a matter of protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption who will use codes to make the data unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily 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 of which are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to access your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy A20 or has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each Samsung Galaxy A20 encryption method corresponds to different requirements, in the event that you don't have very personal things on your phone it is not worth going into encryption of all your data. like you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define personally, according to your requirements and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy A20?
We start by showing you the different methods available to you. to encrypt the data of your Samsung Galaxy A20 . We will show them to you in order from easiest to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Samsung Galaxy A20.
Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A20 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A20. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. However, there is a major problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, on the assumption that you are not afraid that someone will access your data and that it is just to put an easy security on your Samsung Galaxy A20 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly. in the menu " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A20 using a password, visual diagram or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption solutions for Samsung Galaxy A20 in the same section because they all provide a close and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will set up and which is really difficult to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing third party access to your Samsung Galaxy A20. Despite everything, 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 Samsung Galaxy A20 using encryption
Last option, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A20 using a data encryption system , in this situation 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 Samsung Galaxy A20, it may take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their data is fundamental. 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 Samsung Galaxy A20
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and confirm the process
- You will now be able to access it only via the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A20?
Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung Galaxy A20 , you will understand, each encryption manipulation has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution 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. to your data.
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