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sslutil: issue warning when [hostfingerprint] is used

Mercurial 3.9 added the [hostsecurity] section, which is better
than [hostfingerprints] in every way.

One of the ways that [hostsecurity] is better is that it supports
SHA-256 and SHA-512 fingerprints, not just SHA-1 fingerprints.

The world is moving away from SHA-1 because it is borderline
secure. Mercurial should be part of that movement.

This patch adds a warning when a valid SHA-1 fingerprint from
the [hostfingerprints] section is being used. The warning informs
users to switch to [hostsecurity]. It even prints the config
option they should set. It uses the SHA-256 fingerprint because
recommending a SHA-1 fingerprint in 2017 would be ill-advised.

The warning will print itself on every connection to a server until
it is fixed. There is no way to suppress the warning. I admit this
is annoying. But given the security implications of sticking with
SHA-1, I think this is justified. If this patch is accepted,
I'll likely send a follow-up to start warning on SHA-1
certificates in [hostsecurity] as well. Then sometime down
the road, we can drop support for SHA-1 fingerprints.

Credit for this idea comes from timeless in issue 5466.

Test encode/decode filters

  $ hg init
  $ cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
  > [encode]
  > not.gz = tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
  > *.gz = gzip -d
  > [decode]
  > not.gz = tr [:upper:] [:lower:]
  > *.gz = gzip
  > EOF
  $ echo "this is a test" | gzip > a.gz
  $ echo "this is a test" > not.gz
  $ hg add *
  $ hg ci -m "test"

no changes

  $ hg status
  $ touch *

no changes

  $ hg status

check contents in repo are encoded

  $ hg debugdata a.gz 0
  this is a test
  $ hg debugdata not.gz 0
  THIS IS A TEST

check committed content was decoded

  $ gunzip < a.gz
  this is a test
  $ cat not.gz
  this is a test
  $ rm *
  $ hg co -C
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

check decoding of our new working dir copy

  $ gunzip < a.gz
  this is a test
  $ cat not.gz
  this is a test

check hg cat operation

  $ hg cat a.gz
  this is a test
  $ hg cat --decode a.gz | gunzip
  this is a test
  $ mkdir subdir
  $ cd subdir
  $ hg -R .. cat ../a.gz
  this is a test
  $ hg -R .. cat --decode ../a.gz | gunzip
  this is a test

  $ cd ..