Intel has unleashed a new set of API's (application programming interface) for their "Peer-to-Peer Trusted Library", allowing developers to pack in support for peer authentication, encryption, digital signatures and secure storage of files.

Intel hopes to provide the P2P (peer-to-peer) development community with a method of securing applications being developed for P2P file exchange. Thus, allowing the control of content distributed through these systems.

Intel has been a large supporter of P2P technologies for quite some time, recognizing the next level of networking and online distribution as a large key to the future of online business.

Intel has been using internal forms of P2P file sharing since the early 1990's, and has recently formed the peer-to-peer group www.peer-to-peerwg.org to attempt to draft standards for the future of the technology.

With the release of the Peer-to-Peer Trusted Library, Intel continues to show that it plans on making itself a part of the future of peer-to-peer networking, and continues to push the development of the technology in the process.