doc,crypto: further clarify RSA_PKCS1_PADDING support

PR-URL: #51799 Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
nodejs · Feb 28, 2024 · 8bfb8f5 · 8bfb8f5
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@@ -4514,8  4514,9 @@ changes:
       - v21.6.2
       - v20.11.1
       - v18.19.1
-    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/525
-    description: The `RSA_PKCS1_PADDING` padding was disabled.
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/515
     description: The `RSA_PKCS1_PADDING` padding was disabled unless the
                  OpenSSL build supports implicit rejection.
   - version: v15.0.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35093
     description: Added string, ArrayBuffer, and CryptoKey as allowable key
@@ -4557,8  4558,10 @@ If `privateKey` is not a [`KeyObject`][], this function behaves as if
 object, the `padding` property can be passed. Otherwise, this function uses
 `RSA_PKCS1_OAEP_PADDING`.
 
-The `crypto.constants.RSA_PKCS1_PADDING` padding is disabled in
-[`crypto.privateDecrypt()`][] since the February 2024 security releases. <span class="deprecated-inline"></span>
 Using `crypto.constants.RSA_PKCS1_PADDING` in [`crypto.privateDecrypt()`][]
 requires OpenSSL to support implicit rejection (`rsa_pkcs1_implicit_rejection`).
 If the version of OpenSSL used by Node.js does not support this feature,
 attempting to use `RSA_PKCS1_PADDING` will fail.
 
 ### `crypto.privateEncrypt(privateKey, buffer)`