Never accidentally use SSL_SIGN_RSA_PKCS1_MD5_SHA1 at TLS 1.2.

SSL_SIGN_RSA_PKCS1_MD5_SHA1 does not really exist, but is a private use
value we allocated to internally represent the TLS 1.0/1.1 RSA signature
algorithm. (Unlike the TLS 1.0/1.1 ECDSA signature algorithm, which is
the same as SSL_SIGN_ECDSA_SHA1, the RSA one is a bespoke MD5+SHA1
concatenation which never appears in TLS 1.2 and up.)

Although documented that you're not to use it with
SSL_CTX_set_verify_algorithm_prefs and
SSL_CTX_set_signing_algorithm_prefs (it only exists for
SSL_PRIVATE_KEY_METHOD), there's nothing stopping a caller from passing
it in.

Were you to do so anyway, we'd get confused and sign or verify it at TLS
1.2. This CL is the first half of a fix: since we already have
pkey_supports_algorithm that checks a (version, sigalg, key) tuple, that
function should just know this is not a 1.2-compatible algorithm.

A subsequent CL will also fix those APIs to not accept invalid values
from the caller, since these invalid calls will still, e.g., dump
garbage values on the wire.

Change-Id: I119503f9742a17952ed08e5815fb3d1419fd4a12
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/55445
Reviewed-by: Bob Beck <bbe@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Bob Beck <bbe@google.com>
Auto-Submit: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
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README.md

BoringSSL

BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.

BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.

Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.

Project links:

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