2.6 Certificate Revocation

Revocation is immediate in the Corente Cloud Services Exchange architecture while a site is in contact with the Corente SCP. Customers have complete control over their Corente Cloud Services Exchange Gateway keys, which can be regenerated on-demand at any time. Revised certificates are automatically distributed to authorized recipients through the secure channels.

Unlike the generic certificate or shared secret approaches, where revocation only takes effect the next time authentication is performed (and perhaps not even then if certificate revocation lists are not assiduously checked), revocation under Corente Cloud Services Exchange usually takes place within a few seconds for all connections affected by the revocation.