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-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Martin Willi
- * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
- * option) any later version.  See <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
- * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
- * for more details.
- */
-
-/**
- * @defgroup x509 x509
- * @{ @ingroup certificates
- */
-
-#ifndef X509_H_
-#define X509_H_
-
-#include <utils/enumerator.h>
-#include <credentials/certificates/certificate.h>
-
-typedef struct x509_t x509_t;
-typedef enum x509_flag_t x509_flag_t;
-
-/**
- * X.509 certificate flags.
- */
-enum x509_flag_t {
-	/** cert has CA constraint */
-	X509_CA = 			(1<<0),
-	/** cert has AA constraint */
-	X509_AA = 			(1<<1),
-	/** cert has OCSP signer constraint */
-	X509_OCSP_SIGNER = 	(1<<2),
-	/** cert is self-signed */
-	X509_SELF_SIGNED =  (1<<3),
-};
-
-/**
- * enum names for x509 flags
- */
-extern enum_name_t *x509_flag_names;
-
-/**
- * X.509 certificate interface.
- *
- * This interface adds additional methods to the certificate_t type to
- * allow further operations on these certificates.
- */
-struct x509_t {
-
-	/**
-	 * Implements certificate_t.
-	 */
-	certificate_t interface;
-
-	/**
-	 * Get the flags set for this certificate.
-	 *
-	 * @return			set of flags
-	 */
-	x509_flag_t (*get_flags)(x509_t *this);
-
-	/**
-	 * Get the certificate serial number.
-	 *
-	 * @return			chunk pointing to internal serial number
-	 */
-	chunk_t (*get_serial)(x509_t *this);
-
-	/**
-	 * Get the the authorityKeyIdentifier.
-	 *
-	 * @return			authKeyIdentifier as chunk_t, internal data
-	 */
-	chunk_t (*get_authKeyIdentifier)(x509_t *this);
-
-	/**
-	 * Create an enumerator over all subjectAltNames.
-	 *
-	 * @return			enumerator over subjectAltNames as identification_t*
-	 */
-	enumerator_t* (*create_subjectAltName_enumerator)(x509_t *this);
-
-	/**
-	 * Create an enumerator over all CRL URIs.
-	 *
-	 * @return			enumerator over URIs as char*
-	 */
-	enumerator_t* (*create_crl_uri_enumerator)(x509_t *this);
-
-	/**
-	 * Create an enumerator over all OCSP URIs.
-	 *
-	 * @return			enumerator over URIs as char*
-	 */
-	enumerator_t* (*create_ocsp_uri_enumerator)(x509_t *this);
-};
-
-#endif /** X509_H_ @}*/