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Diffstat (limited to 'Source/lib/utils/identification.h')
-rw-r--r-- | Source/lib/utils/identification.h | 67 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Source/lib/utils/identification.h b/Source/lib/utils/identification.h index 87ac2a8b2..4df665c09 100644 --- a/Source/lib/utils/identification.h +++ b/Source/lib/utils/identification.h @@ -31,11 +31,7 @@ typedef enum id_type_t id_type_t; /** * @brief ID Types in a ID payload. - * - * @see - * - identification_t - * - id_payload_t - * + * * @ingroup utils */ enum id_type_t { @@ -81,7 +77,12 @@ enum id_type_t { * specific information necessary to do certain proprietary * types of identification. */ - ID_KEY_ID = 11 + ID_KEY_ID = 11, + + /** + * Special type of PRIVATE USE which matches to any other id. + */ + ID_ANY = 201, }; /** @@ -95,20 +96,20 @@ typedef struct identification_t identification_t; * @brief Generic identification, such as used in ID payload. * * The following types are possible: - * - ID_IPV4_ADDR - * - ID_FQDN* - * - ID_RFC822_ADDR* - * - ID_IPV6_ADDR* - * - ID_DER_ASN1_DN* - * - ID_DER_ASN1_GN* - * - ID_KEY_ID* - * (* = string conversion not supported) + * - ID_IPV4_ADDR + * - ID_FQDN + * - ID_RFC822_ADDR + * - ID_IPV6_ADDR + * - ID_DER_ASN1_DN + * - ID_DER_ASN1_GN + * - ID_KEY_ID * * @b Constructors: * - identification_create_from_string() * - identification_create_from_encoding() * - * @todo Support for other ID types then ID_IPV4_ADDR. + * @todo Support for ID_DER_ASN1_GN is minimal right now. Comparison + * between them and ID_IPV4_ADDR/RFC822_ADDR would be nice. * * @ingroup utils */ @@ -158,10 +159,13 @@ struct identification_t { * An identification_t may contain wildcards, such as * *@strongswan.org. This call checks if a given ID * (e.g. tester@strongswan.org) belongs to a such wildcard - * ID. Returns TRUE if IDs are identical. + * ID. Returns TRUE if + * - IDs are identical + * - other is of type ID_ANY + * - other contains a wildcard and matches this * - * @param this the ID containing a wildcard - * @param other the ID without wildcard + * @param this the ID without wildcard + * @param other the ID containing a wildcard * @return TRUE if other belongs to this */ bool (*belongs_to) (identification_t *this, identification_t *other); @@ -185,15 +189,31 @@ struct identification_t { /** * @brief Creates an identification_t object from a string. * - * @param type type of this id, such as ID_IPV4_ADDR * @param string input string, which will be converted * @return * - created identification_t object, or - * - NULL if type not supported. + * - NULL if unsupported string supplied. + * + * The input string may be e.g. one of the following: + * - ID_IPV4_ADDR: 192.168.0.1 + * - ID_IPV6_ADDR: 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7345 + * - ID_FQDN: @www.strongswan.org (@indicates FQDN) + * - ID_RFC822_ADDR: alice@wonderland.org + * - ID_DER_ASN1_DN: C=CH, O=Linux strongSwan, CN=bob + * + * In favour of pluto, domainnames are prepended with an @, since + * pluto resolves domainnames without an @ to IPv4 addresses. Since + * we use a seperate host_t class for addresses, this doesn't + * make sense for us. * + * A distinguished name may contain one or more of the following RDNs: + * ND, UID, DC, CN, S, SN, serialNumber, C, L, ST, O, OU, T, D, + * N, G, I, ID, EN, EmployeeNumber, E, Email, emailAddress, UN, + * unstructuredName, TCGID. + * * @ingroup utils */ -identification_t * identification_create_from_string(id_type_t type, char *string); +identification_t * identification_create_from_string(char *string); /** * @brief Creates an identification_t object from an encoded chunk. @@ -201,7 +221,10 @@ identification_t * identification_create_from_string(id_type_t type, char *strin * @param type type of this id, such as ID_IPV4_ADDR * @param encoded encoded bytes, such as from identification_t.get_encoding * @return identification_t object - * + * + * In contrast to identification_create_from_string(), this constructor never + * returns NULL, even when the conversion to a sring representation fails. + * * @ingroup utils */ identification_t * identification_create_from_encoding(id_type_t type, chunk_t encoded); |