Encryption And Password
Protection At Front Look Quite Similar But In Reality Are Quite Different. They
Both Use A Password To Access Files/Folders But The Depth Of Protection In
Either Of Them Is Completely Different.
Password
Protection:
This Process Is A Refined
Yet Convenient Form Of Security That Acts As A Barrier Between You And The
Intruders. The Process Includes A Few Steps And Isn’t That Complicated. For Example,
If You Want To Turn The Protection On For A File, You Do It By Either Built-In
Password Protection Technique Or By An External Protection Tool.
Built-In
Technique:
Go On The Properties Of
The File And Tap On ‘Sharing’. Moving On, Tap On The ‘Make This Folder
Private’.
Tap On ‘Apply’ Which
Would Launch A Prompt Window. Here, You Need To Create A Password Twice.
Make Sure You Do Not Set
Your Password Too Easy To Guess As If You Do, Your Entire Efforts Would Be
Useless.
External
Protection Software:
A Lot Of Tools And
Software Have Provided Such Feature On How
To Encrypt Data For Password Protecion And Has Made The Life A Whole
Lot Easier. In This Option, You Are Not Bound To Follow All The Tiring Steps As
Mentioned In The Built-In Technique, And Only Need To Just Open The Software
And Drag All The Files/Folders Into Its Password Protection Feature. If However,
Drag And Drop Isn’t Available, You Would Have To Manually Select All The Files
From The Software’s Interface To Password Protect Them.
Encryption:
Highlight The Folder/File
You Want To Protect, And Tap On Its Properties
A Lot Of Tabs Would Be
Opened Once You Do Step 1
Here, You Would See The
‘Advanced’ Option Where You Need To Select Or Tick The Option Of ‘Encrypt
Content To Secure Data’
Moving On, You Tap On
‘Apply’ And Finally ‘Ok’
External
Protection Tool:
Encryption Software
Regardless Of Which Brand You Use Prevents All Those Snoopers And Intruders
From Attacking Your System. But Not All The Encryption Software Are Up To The
Task. For Example, Encryption Had Three Top Working Algorithms That With The
Passage Of Time, Lost Their Credibility. Blowfish, Twofish And The Recent AES 256
Bit Encryption. The Former Two Versions Aren’t Any More Trustable And Are
Toward The End Of Their Life Cycle. This Happened As One Way Or The Other,
Those Two Were Breached And Were No Longer Trusted. AES 256 Bit Encryption
However Stands Tall With Less Or No Loophole(S). Till Date, It Hasn’t Been
Breached And Isn’t Supposed To Be Breached Anytime Sooner.
The
Difference (Between Password Protection And Encryption)
The Major Difference Is
That In Password Protection, Your Hide & Lock Your Folders And
Files Only From The Previous Location But Are Still
Reachable/Traceable Through The Database Of Your System. Your Password
Protected Files Won’t Exist Where They Were Before (Which Makes You Think
You’re Good To Go) But In Reality, They Are Still In The System Ready To Be
Accessed With A Bit Of An Effort.
Encryption However
Doesn’t Work Like This At All. Its Latest Version (256 Bit) Is Quite Trustable.
When You Encrypt A File, All The Data That Was Once Into Meaningful Form Would
Go From Being Meaningful To Meaningless. It Would Shape A Raw Form Of Data
Which Known As Data Being Encrypted. The Only Way One Could Access The File Is
By Decrypting It Using The Designated Password. In Fact, No Person No Matter
How Smart He Or She May Be Can Access Your Protected File As It Is Not Possible
In Any Condition. Hence, A Password Is Being Used In Either Version Of
Security, But Both Aren’t Breach-Able From The Backend.
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