Key information is exchanged between Corente Services Gateways only if the administrators of both gateways mutually consent to the connection. This is a unique feature of the Corente Cloud Services Exchange solution that is extremely valuable in establishing inter-corporate extranet connections or bridging organizations and business units within a single company.

Administrators completely control their own security domains, including tunnel connections and user groups. Connections between domains are established through this mutual consent model. When the administrator of one of the gateways decides to end the mutual consent (the decision can be made unilaterally), key revocation is immediate. All on-line gateways are notified instantaneously and tunnels are terminated. Off-line gateways are notified of the revocation the next time they contact the Corente SCP.