pkcs8: add hint on private_key field about its format (#1749)
#1751
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tarcieri
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Adds a hint that might have prevented #1749.
The different formats of the private key per algorithm is already mentioned in the struct documentation and the referenced RFC also documents this fact.
Here we add a breadcrumb inline on the specific field to that fact. This should tell people "Hey, this isn't the actual private key. It's still encoded."
The new generic struct already gives a neat hint towards that fact. Previously it was just a byte slice.