[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | nettle: mark non-compliant RSA-PSS salt length to be not-approved (!1669)

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Daiki Ueno created a merge request: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1669

Project:Branches: dueno/gnutls:wip/dueno/rsa-pss-saltlen to gnutls/gnutls:master
Author:   Daiki Ueno




According to FIPS 186-5 5.4, the salt length must be in the range
between 0 and the hash length inclusive.  While the use of those salt
lengths is still allowed for compatibility, it is reported as
non-approved operation through FIPS service indicator.

## Checklist
 * [x] Commits have `Signed-off-by:` with name/author being identical to the commit author
 * [ ] Code modified for feature
 * [x] Test suite updated with functionality tests
 * [x] Test suite updated with negative tests
 * [ ] Documentation updated / NEWS entry present (for non-trivial changes)
 * [ ] CI timeout is 2h or higher (see Settings/CICD/General pipelines/Timeout)

## Reviewer's checklist:
 * [ ] Any issues marked for closing are addressed
 * [ ] There is a test suite reasonably covering new functionality or modifications
 * [ ] Function naming, parameters, return values, types, etc., are consistent and according to `CONTRIBUTION.md`
 * [ ] This feature/change has adequate documentation added
 * [ ] No obvious mistakes in the code

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