Secure connection for the rest of us.

VPN connections are an essential part of many people's daily life and therefore they have to be integrated seamlessly into the existing network infrastructure. Shimo automatically detects changes in your network configuration and reacts accordingly like initiating a VPN connection or reconnection.

Secure VPN connections are only really secure as long as the data used for authentication is stored safely. Therefore Shimo uses Apple's central storage for all your sensitive information: Keychain. Both, your passwords and your certificates are stored in the Kechain and thus protected additionally by your MacOS X password.

Shimo keeps you informed about every important event. To achieve this it offers multiple different ways of getting your attention: Next to growl notifications and special sounds Shimo supports spoken text and custom AppleScripts. With those you can execute whatever action you want and connect it with a specific event in the connection process.

When we speak about VPN we think of encryption, authentication and low level networking. Abbreviations like 3DES, AES, PFS and DH make it even more complicated for a normal user to set up a secure tunnel. Shimo makes all this possible and enables really everbody to handle secure connections.

Shimo supports almost every VPN protocol that is currently used. Next to the widely used CiscoVPN, Shimo easily handles OpenVPN and standard compliant IPSec connections. PPTP and L2TP are no problem at all either. With Cisco's new AnyConnect protocol and the zero-configuration protocol Hamachi the list of supported connection types becomes even longer. If you know any protocol not supported by Shimo, please let us know...