Add Phase 9C security hardening

Generate exact-hash SDK source overrides without modifying dependencies.
Harden
SSH allocation and algorithm policy, tighten web authentication cleanup,
and add
focused host contract tests and documentation.
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@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ HTTPS listens on port 443 only. Authenticate with any current user-database user
SSH listens on port 22 and accepts user-database passwords plus stored `ssh-ed25519` and `ecdsa-sha2-nistp256` public keys. wolfSSH verifies key possession after the database authorizes the username/key pair; unsigned key probes do not complete authentication. A `user` receives the broker-backed UART1 serial stream. An `admin` receives the administration shell instead, does not become a broker client, and cannot acquire a UART1 writer lease.
SSH algorithm policy is explicit: KEX `curve25519-sha256`/`ecdh-sha2-nistp256`, P-256 host key, AES-128/256-GCM ciphers and `hmac-sha2-256` MAC advertisement (GCM authenticates packets). CBC/CTR-only or excluded-KEX-only clients cannot connect. There is no CLI fallback that weakens this policy; do not rotate keys merely to address a negotiation mismatch. [Exact TLS/SSH policy and upgrade contract](security_library_review.md).
SSH admission uses global boot-lifetime token buckets: handshakes and password/signed-key requests each allow a burst of six and refill one token per ten seconds; unsigned-key probes allow twelve and refill one per five seconds. The existing three-counted-attempt failure closure remains per connection. Reconnect, `ssh stop`/`ssh start`, host-key rotation and `ssh clear-counters` do not replenish these budgets. Rate denial closes the authenticating connection, not an established stream. Restrict hostile traffic and allow natural refill; repeatedly reconnecting consumes shared capacity and can prevent other users from logging in.
`ssh counters` separates handshake/verification/probe admissions and rate rejections, attempt-limit closures, backend errors and rejected methods. Admitted work is not necessarily successful or completed; probes/rate denials are not completed `auth-attempts`. These counters expose no submitted credentials and clearing them does not change enforcement. Keyboard-interactive is explicitly rejected, not merely omitted from the advertised list. See [policy and validation](security_hardening.md#9b-ssh-admission-and-credential-handling).