If your privacy and internet security are essential for you, you certainly need it to be on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge as well. Indeed, we are using more and more our mobile phones instead of our laptops and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Making your phone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and relevant choice. For this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure the data on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and how to access it when they are. locked.

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Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?

We therefore start this article by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. We will first of all come back to the term explain 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 which will use codes to make the data unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your data.

Either way 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 take longer for you to get your hands on. your data. On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for a person who steals your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge from you or who has access to it to get hold of your data.

To put it simply, each Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge encryption method is suitable for different expectations, in the event that you don't have very important things on your phone it is not worth going into encrypting all of them. your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?

We therefore start by revealing the different techniques that are available to you. to encrypt the data of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge . 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 Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge using facial recognition

First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it has of course advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a major concern, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your data and that it is just to put a simple security on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your phone.

Encrypt Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint

We have chosen to bring together these different encryption alternatives for Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in the same part because they all provide a similar and very correct level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will be a very simple 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 determine and which is particularly complicated to "Hacker", 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 S6 Edge. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your phone 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 phone.

Encrypt all data on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge using encryption

Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your phone which will be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the app on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Define a password and validate the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only via the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of its Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?

Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge , you will have realized, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a technique for unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you must write down on a piece of paper and not forget otherwise you risk losing access forever to your data.

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