If your privacy and internet security are essential for you, you probably need it as well on your Samsung Galaxy S6. Indeed, we increasingly use our smartphones instead of our computers and essential 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 useful choice. In this context, we will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy S6? In this context, we will help you by first showing you the interest of these security measures, after that, all the actions that you can activate to secure the files of your Samsung Galaxy S6 and how to access them when they are are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung Galaxy S6?
We therefore start this tutorial by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Samsung Galaxy S6. 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 inaccessible without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.
Either way 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 take longer for you to reach your files. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy S6 or has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To put it simply, each Samsung Galaxy S6 encryption method is suitable for different needs, if you don't have very personal things on your phone then don't bother going into encrypting all your data like you. work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define personally, according to your needs and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy S6?
We therefore start by showing you the different methods available to you. to encrypt the files of your Samsung Galaxy S6 . We'll walk you through them 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.
Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy S6 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy S6. This is the solution that we least suggest to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you .. However, there is a major problem, 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 put a simple security on your Samsung Galaxy S6, you can set it up very quickly in the menu. " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt Samsung Galaxy S6 using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption alternatives for Samsung Galaxy S6 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will be a very simple 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 define and which is particularly difficult to " hacker ”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three options will have the same functionality, preventing third party access to your Samsung Galaxy S6. 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 Samsung Galaxy S6 using encryption
Last option, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy S6 using a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this manipulation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy S6 it can take more than an hour. We therefore suggest this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend using the app SSE , who will be able to assist you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Samsung Galaxy S6
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the process
- 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 Samsung Galaxy S6?
Concerning Samsung Galaxy S6 data decryption , you will have realized it, each encryption manipulation has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution 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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