GHA: silence proselint warnings and an error

Fix new issues found by `proselint`.

Also:
- silence this technical warning:
```
:0: DeprecationWarning: /home/runner/.p

GHA: silence proselint warnings and an error

Fix new issues found by `proselint`.

Also:
- silence this technical warning:
```
:0: DeprecationWarning: /home/runner/.proselintrc was found instead of a JSON file. Rename to /home/runner/.proselintrc.json.
```
- fix an input filename.
`proselints` fails now if an input file is missing.

Reported-by: Jay Satiro
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/15291#issuecomment-2410505100
Closes #15293

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docs: update CIPHERS.md

Give a more consice overview of curl's cipher options and cipher suites.

Removed long lists of ciphers that were directly copied from the SSL
backends' d

docs: update CIPHERS.md

Give a more consice overview of curl's cipher options and cipher suites.

Removed long lists of ciphers that were directly copied from the SSL
backends' documentation. Instead present the user a more common aproach
acorss the SSL backends, with notes for backends that do not conform
and/or provide alternate means.

Provide a shorter list of cipher suites that is more relevant for modern
usage and should work mostly across all backends, provide a seperate
list with all cipher suites, and provide links to the SSL backends'
documentation for more information.

Also give examples with modern cipher suites.

Add docs/CIPHERS-TLS12.md for TLS 1.2 ciphers.

Closes #14460

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docs: wolfssl and mbedtls add CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS support

Documentation for #14384 and #14385

Closes #14386

tidy-up: URL updates

Closes #14318

tidy-up: adjust casing of project names

Mostly TLS/SSH project name.

Closes #14160

reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old

reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old files from .reuse/dep5
+ add info to .github/dependabot.yml
+ make scripts/copyright.pl warn on non-matching patterns

Closes #13245

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docs: use present tense

avoid "will", detect "will" as a bad word in the CI

Also line wrapped a bunch of paragraphs

Closes #13001

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.

Closes #12764

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gskit: remove

We remove support for building curl with gskit.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend

gskit: remove

We remove support for building curl with gskit.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"

This removal has been advertized in DEPRECATED in Jan 2, 2023 and it has
been mentioned on the curl-library mailing list.

It could be brought back, this is not a ban. Given proper effort and
will, gskit support is welcome back into the curl TLS backend family.

Closes #11460

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schannel: fix user-set legacy algorithms in Windows 10 & 11

- If the user set a legacy algorithm list (CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST) then
use the SCHANNEL_CRED legacy structure to pass the

schannel: fix user-set legacy algorithms in Windows 10 & 11

- If the user set a legacy algorithm list (CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST) then
use the SCHANNEL_CRED legacy structure to pass the list to Schannel.

- If the user set both a legacy algorithm list and a TLS 1.3 cipher list
then abort.

Although MS doesn't document it, Schannel will not negotiate TLS 1.3
when SCHANNEL_CRED is used. That means setting a legacy algorithm list
limits the user to earlier versions of TLS.

Prior to this change, since 8beff435 (precedes 7.85.0), libcurl would
ignore legacy algorithms in Windows 10 1809 and later.

Reported-by: zhihaoy@users.noreply.github.com

Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/10741
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/10746

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nss: delete more NSS references

Fix the distcheck CI failure and delete more NSS references.

Follow-up to 7c8bae0d9c9b2dfeeb008b9a316117d7b9675175

Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad

nss: delete more NSS references

Fix the distcheck CI failure and delete more NSS references.

Follow-up to 7c8bae0d9c9b2dfeeb008b9a316117d7b9675175

Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes #11548

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docs: use a space after RFC when spelling out RFC numbers

Closes #11382

docs: spellfixes

Pointed by the new CI job

schannel: Add TLS 1.3 support

- Support TLS 1.3 as the default max TLS version for Windows Server 2022
and Windows 11.

- Support specifying TLS 1.3 ciphers via existing option

schannel: Add TLS 1.3 support

- Support TLS 1.3 as the default max TLS version for Windows Server 2022
and Windows 11.

- Support specifying TLS 1.3 ciphers via existing option
CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS (tool: --tls13-ciphers).

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8419

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BearSSL: add CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST support

Closes #8477

docs: grammar proofread, typo fixes

(Partially automated) proofread of most of the documentation, leading to
various typo fixes.

Closes #8353

docs: fix dead links, remove ECH.md

docs: fix proselint nits

- remove a lot of exclamation marks
- use consistent spaces (1, not 2)
- use better words at some places

Closes #8123

schannel: Support strong crypto option

- Support enabling strong crypto via optional user cipher list when
USE_STRONG_CRYPTO or SCH_USE_STRONG_CRYPTO is in the list.

MSDN says

schannel: Support strong crypto option

- Support enabling strong crypto via optional user cipher list when
USE_STRONG_CRYPTO or SCH_USE_STRONG_CRYPTO is in the list.

MSDN says SCH_USE_STRONG_CRYPTO "Instructs Schannel to disable known
weak cryptographic algorithms, cipher suites, and SSL/TLS protocol
versions that may be otherwise enabled for better interoperability."

Ref: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-02/0066.html
Ref: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#--ciphers
Ref: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST.html
Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/schannel/ns-schannel-schannel_cred

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6734

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curl.se: new home

Closes #6172

CIPHERS.md: Explain Schannel error SEC_E_ALGORITHM_MISMATCH

If the SSL backend is Schannel and the user specifies an Schannel CALG_
that is not supported by the protocol or the server th

CIPHERS.md: Explain Schannel error SEC_E_ALGORITHM_MISMATCH

If the SSL backend is Schannel and the user specifies an Schannel CALG_
that is not supported by the protocol or the server then curl returns
CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR (35) SEC_E_ALGORITHM_MISMATCH.

Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3389
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4106

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tls13-docs: mention it is only for OpenSSL >= 1.1.1

Reported-by: Jay Satiro
Co-authored-by: Jay Satiro
Fixes #3938
Closes #3946

nss: allow to specify TLS 1.3 ciphers if supported by NSS

Closes #3916

docs: Markdown and misc improvements [ci skip]

Approved-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes #3896

schannel: support CALG_ECDH_EPHEM algorithm

Add support for Ephemeral elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange
algorithm option when selecting ciphers. This became available on the

schannel: support CALG_ECDH_EPHEM algorithm

Add support for Ephemeral elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange
algorithm option when selecting ciphers. This became available on the
Win10 SDK.

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3608

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