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CipherShed vs jZip
When comparing CipherShed vs jZip, the Slant community recommends jZip for most people. In the question“What are the best file encryption tools?” jZip is ranked 4th while CipherShed is ranked 18th.
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LicenseLGPL-2.1-or-later
PlatformsWindows, Linux, BSD, ReactOS
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Pros
Pro Built on top of TrueCrypt
CipherShed is built on top of the famous and now abandoned TrueCrypt and it comes with a lot of things that TrueCrypt had.
Pro Completely free
CipherShed is completely free and open source.
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Windows, OS X and Linux
Pro Totally free
Pro Sleek interface
Cons
Con Difficult to enhance key derivation
Since CipherShed decided to keep the TrueCrypt compatibility, and stick with that format they also have to stick with TrueCrypt's key derivation which was released in 2004 and understandably does not offer the same security that it did when first released.
Con Default installation options include adware
You can avoid this if you select your options carefully at installation time