If your privacy and security on the internet is important to you, you certainly need it to be important on your Samsung Galaxy A42 as well. Indeed, we are using our smartphones more and more instead of our laptops and essential data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Ensuring that your mobile phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and relevant choice. In this context, it will be necessary to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A42? In this context, we are going to help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can implement to secure the files of your Samsung Galaxy A42 and how to access them. when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung Galaxy A42?
We therefore start this article by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Samsung Galaxy A42. First of all, we are going to come back to the concept and describe it for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting files is basically encrypting them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the files indecipherable 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.
Whatever it is and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore longer for you to reach your files. On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy A42 or who has access to it to recover your data.
To put it simply, each Samsung Galaxy A42 encryption method is adapted to different expectations, if you don't have very important things on your smartphone it's not worth getting into encryption of all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to analyze personally, according to your expectations and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy A42?
We therefore start by showing you the different solutions that exist. to encrypt files on your Samsung Galaxy A42 . We will walk you through them in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Samsung Galaxy A42.
Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A42 using facial recognition
First of the possibilities offered to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Samsung Galaxy A42. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you .. That said, there is a serious problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if you are not afraid of someone accessing your files and it is just to put a simple security on your Samsung Galaxy A42 that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A42 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We have chosen to collect these different encryption alternatives for Samsung Galaxy A42 in the same section because they all guarantee a similar and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you for when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will configure and which is particularly complicated to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify…
These three options will have the same function, prevent a stranger from accessing your Samsung Galaxy A42. That said, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a relative and allow him 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 smartphone.
Encrypt all data on your Samsung Galaxy A42 using encryption
Last technique, and, you will understand, the one that allows to ensure a maximum of safety, it is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A42 using a data encryption system , you will have in this situation all the data of your smartphone which will be encrypted, this intervention requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy A42 it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you 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 Samsung Galaxy A42
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and validate the operation
- You will now be able to access it only via the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A42?
Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung Galaxy A42 , you will have realized, each manipulation of encryption has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and do not forget or you risk losing access. your files forever.
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