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README.md: change encryption example to use OAEP - #721

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PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption is fundamentally broken (see #637) due to Bleichenbacher attacks, and draft-irtf-cfrg-rsa-guidance suggests we get rid of it entirely.

At the very least, we can stop using it in the README.md example

PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption is fundamentally broken (see #637) due to
Bleichenbacher attacks, and `draft-irtf-cfrg-rsa-guidance` suggests we
get rid of it entirely.

At the very least, we can stop using it in the README.md example
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