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Add to SafariWhen comparing Disk Utility vs CipherShed, the Slant community recommends Disk Utility for most people. In the question“What are the best file encryption tools?” Disk Utility is ranked 11th while CipherShed is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Disk Utility is:
It offers the best integration, ease of use and support with OS X.
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Pros
Pro Native OS X support
It offers the best integration, ease of use and support with OS X.
Pro Disk image and volume encryption
You can create a disk image that requires a password to mount. It can use a different filesystem than OS X, like exFAT, that can be used to move files between Windows and OS X. Additionally, you can encrypt file volumes by right-clicking and selecting encrypt.
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 Mac only
Disk Utility is available for OSX only.
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.
