What is encryption? Exploring MemoirME’s new feature to protect your information

Electronic devices store most of our thoughts, memories, and emotions in the digital age. Especially for private content like personal diaries, ensuring that only the owner can access it is crucial. This is where encryption plays a key role.

1. What is encryption? Why is it important for protecting personal data?

Encryption is the process of converting data into a coded format to prevent unauthorized access. When data is encrypted, it becomes unreadable without the correct decryption key.

In personal diary applications, encryption ensures that:

• Diary content is protected from unauthorized access
• Only the owner can read the data
• Personal information remains private even if the device is accessed by others

You can think of encryption as a digital safe that only someone with the correct key can open and read what’s inside. That’s why encryption has become an essential security standard for applications that store personal data.

2. What is a seed phrase? What should you keep in mind?

2.1. What is a seed phrase?

A seed phrase is a sequence of characters that acts as the decryption key to access encrypted diary content.

When encryption is enabled, diary entries are encrypted before being stored. To read them again, users must use the exact seed phrase they created. Therefore, the seed phrase becomes the most important factor in maintaining access to your data.

2.2. Important principles when using a seed phrase

For any seed phrase, this is the only way to access encrypted content. Therefore:

• You must store your seed phrase carefully
• You should never share it with anyone

Following these principles ensures that your seed phrase is strong enough to protect your personal data.

3. MemoirME and how encryption protects journaling space

MemoirME integrates encryption as a key security feature to help users protect their personal diary content. To use encryption, follow these steps:

3.1. Subscribe to the encryption plan

First, users need to subscribe to the encryption plan within the app. Once activated, the feature will be available in the Privacy Settings section.

3.2. Create a seed phrase

When enabling encryption for the first time, users must create a seed phrase that meets the following requirements:

Includes at least one special characterIn Privacy Settings, users can turn on encryption to start protecting their diary entries.

• At least 8 characters
• Includes at least one letter
• Includes at least one number

Examples of valid seed phrases include: MemoirME_1234; Nhatky@2026

3.3. Biometric access

After creating Seedphrase, you can also enable Biometric access to conveniently access your Encrypted diaries.

Go to Settings => Privacy to enable Biometric access.

4. What happens if you forget your seed phrase?

Encryption is highly secure, and one of its key characteristics is that lost seed phrases cannot be recovered.

In practice, if a user forgets their seed phrase, the app allows them to create a new one. However, this will overwrite the old seed phrase. As a result, any diary entries encrypted with the old seed phrase will no longer be accessible.

This also means that the new seed phrase will only apply to entries created afterward, ensuring that only the person who holds the current seed phrase can access the encrypted content.

For this reason, users should store their seed phrase in a safe place from the very beginning, such as a password manager or a secure personal note.

With MemoirME, encryption creates a safe journaling space where only you can access and read your entries. Enable encryption and set up a secure seed phrase with MemoirME to better protect your personal memories and thoughts in the digital world.