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Is there any way i can password protect or lock folder in ubuntu that can also be opened in windows 8?? I am using windows 8 and ubuntu 14.04

Su_race
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You can use ecryptfs-utils to encrypt a folder, and it asks for password under Ubuntu. Not sure about Windows though.

meskobalazs
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  • +1 That's what I was going to say but was going to add that Windows shouldn't be able to read from the ext file system format linux and Ubuntu normally uses. But *if* it *can* be read from windows like described in the question, go for the encryption. – mchid Aug 13 '14 at 10:01
  • You can use `ext2fsd` to read ext partitions from Windows. – meskobalazs Aug 13 '14 at 10:03