If your privacy and your internet security are essential for you, you probably need it as well on your Xiaomi Redmi K20. Indeed, we are using more and more of our mobile phones instead of our computers and essential data are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your device is a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. For this, you will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Xiaomi Redmi K20? For this, we will help you by introducing you to start the interest of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can activate to secure the files of your Xiaomi Redmi K20 and how to access them when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Xiaomi Redmi K20?
We therefore start this article by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Xiaomi Redmi K20. 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 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 access your files. . On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for a person who steals your Xiaomi Redmi K20 or who has access to it to get hold of your data.
To put it simply, each Xiaomi Redmi K20 encryption mechanism is suited to different expectations, in the event that you don't have very personal things on your phone it is not worth going into encrypting all your datas as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt the data of a Xiaomi Redmi K20?
We therefore start by presenting you the different techniques available to you. to encrypt your Xiaomi Redmi K20 files . We will present them to you in order from the most basic to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Xiaomi Redmi K20.
Encrypt your Xiaomi Redmi K20 using facial recognition
First of the options that exist, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Xiaomi Redmi K20. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it has of course advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. That said, there is a major problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your files and that it is just to put a simple security on your Xiaomi Redmi K20 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly. in the menu " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Xiaomi Redmi K20 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption options for Xiaomi Redmi K20 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very correct level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is particularly complicated to hack. », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your Xiaomi Redmi K20. That said, 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 Xiaomi Redmi K20 using encryption
Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Xiaomi Redmi K20 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your phone which can be encrypted, this technique requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Xiaomi Redmi K20 it can take 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 Xiaomi Redmi K20
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and confirm 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 your Xiaomi Redmi K20?
Concerning data decryption of a Xiaomi Redmi K20 , you will have realized it, each encryption method has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create an unlock or file access procedure and this last one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to it forever. your files.
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