Cloudish is an anonymizer. It strips cookies and other information that compromise your privacy. But that's not all: Cloudish can be setup in a group of anonymizers hiding you.

Cloudish in a distributed environment works to the principal of; when someone is whispering in a crowd of talking people, it's difficult to find who it was that was whispering. For your websurfing this means: if your request is performed by a proxy-server who is also processing requests for other people, it's very hard (near impossible) to find out which request came from what client.

So what is happening when using a Cloudish-proxy: your request comes into your local Cloudish-proxy. Your local Cloudish-proxy then removes some of the headers transmitted by your browser and after that makes a secure encrypted connection to one of the other configurated Cloudish-proxies (A, B and C in the picture). Then, A, B or C (the one which got the request) will get the requested data and send it back to you. It is also possible that the Cloudish-proxy first connect to one of the other Cloudish-proxies and relays your request trough it. That way it'll be even more to trace back the request to you.


http://www.vanheusden.com/cloudish/index-org.html