crypto/x509: new home for root fetchers; build chains using Windows API
This moves the various CA root fetchers from crypto/tls into crypto/x509. The move was brought about by issue 2997. Windows doesn't ship with all its root certificates, but will instead download them as-needed when using CryptoAPI for certificate verification. This CL changes crypto/x509 to verify a certificate using the system root CAs when VerifyOptions.RootCAs == nil. On Windows, this verification is now implemented using Windows's CryptoAPI. All other root fetchers are unchanged, and still use Go's own verification code. The CL also fixes the hostname matching logic in crypto/tls/tls.go, in order to be able to test whether hostname mismatches are honored by the Windows verification code. The move to crypto/x509 also allows other packages to use the OS-provided root certificates, instead of hiding them inside the crypto/tls package. Fixes #2997. R=agl, golang-dev, alex.brainman, rsc, mikkel CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/5700087
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