CipherShed Review

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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

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.