Assorted chores

[piotr-roslaniec]

Type of PR:

• Other

Required reviews:

• 1

What does it do:

• Fixes a bunch of smaller chores
• Removes support for deprecated Python versions, adds support for Python 3.12
• Adds a CI job to compile benchmarks without running them (benchmarks were disabled a while back because there was some issue with report uploading)
• Removes unused curves (unused code) from the codebase

Issues fixed/closed:

• Fixes #157
• Fixes #164
• Fixes #141
• Fixed #167
• Refers to: https://github.com/nucypher/nucypher-core/pull/87

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Merging #166 (58002f5) into main (13d9d26) will increase coverage by 0.05%. The diff coverage is 97.77%.

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main     #166      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   77.95%   78.01%   +0.05%     
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  Files          23       23              
  Lines        5053     5066      +13     
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+ Hits         3939     3952      +13     
  Misses       1114     1114              

Files	Coverage Δ
ferveo-common/src/keypair.rs	72.97% <100.00%> (+0.53%)	:arrow_up:
ferveo-tdec/src/ciphertext.rs	97.95% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/combine.rs	98.51% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/context.rs	98.03% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/decryption.rs	70.72% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/hash_to_curve.rs	100.00% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/key_share.rs	32.60% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/lib.rs	99.78% <ø> (ø)
ferveo-tdec/src/secret_box.rs	63.15% <ø> (ø)
ferveo/src/api.rs	88.93% <100.00%> (+0.02%)	:arrow_up:
... and 6 more

... and 1 file with indirect coverage changes

[cygnusv]

@piotr-roslaniec what do you think of ferveo-tdec instead of ferveo-tpke? I know that I suggested it, but in retrospective I don't know why I didn't think of that before!

[piotr-roslaniec]

@cygnusv Makes sense, also tpke doesn't quite roll off the tongue. I will update this PR shortly.