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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);