The owner of an identity may be anonymous, but the identity itself is persistent and unique. This allows the development of trust relationships between users of the network. The s-Peer network uses secure socket communications between all peers to ensure the protection of shared resources as they are transferred between members of the peer network. A built in Public Key Infrastructure provides data integrity and validation. There are no central servers or directories in an s-Peer network.
All content is stored on the peers, and searches are distributed across the entire network.
With s-Peer there are no bottlenecks for search or download. Automatic update s-Peer is downloaded and launched using Java Web Start. New releases are automatically detected whenever s-Peer is started, allowing for immediate updates.