When comparing CipherShed vs AxCrypt, the Slant community recommends AxCrypt for most people. In the question“What are the best file encryption tools?” AxCrypt is ranked 6th while CipherShed is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose AxCrypt is:
Integrates with right-click menu for easy access.
Specs
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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 Easy to use
Integrates with right-click menu for easy access.
Pro Self-extracting archives
AxCrypt can create encrypted archives that extract without requiring AxCrypt on the computer. So you can send a file to someone safely, they just need the password.
Pro Easy to share encrypted files
AxCrypt has a build in key sharing.
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.