Document response times, supported versions, access, secrets, and dependency policies (#5580)

Answer the OpenSSF Best Practices criteria that asked for policies the
project follows but had not written down:

- SECURITY.md: a first response within 14 days, publishing an advisory
  with credit once a fix is released, and that only the latest release
  receives security fixes.
- Governance: who has access to the project's resources, how write or
  admin access is granted, and how CI secrets are stored and rotated.
- Quality assurance: how dependencies of the build, test, and
  documentation tooling are pinned, scanned, and kept free of known
  vulnerabilities.

Also update the assurance case, since comparison no longer recurses per
nesting level (#5390), and point the best practices badge and links to
bestpractices.dev under the program's current name.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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- [x] The test suite is executed with [Sanitizers](https://github.com/google/sanitizers) (address sanitizer, undefined
behavior sanitizer, integer overflow detection, nullability violations).
## Dependencies
!!! success "Requirement: No vulnerable dependencies"
The library has no dependencies besides the C++ standard library. The tools used to build, test, and document it
are kept free of known vulnerabilities.
- [x] GitHub Actions are pinned to a commit hash, and the Python packages used by the documentation and the tools are
pinned to exact versions.
- [x] [Dependabot](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot) checks these dependencies daily and proposes
updates as pull requests.
- [x] Every pull request is checked with the
[dependency review action](https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action). A pull request that adds a
dependency with a known vulnerability of any severity fails this check and is not merged.
- [x] Vulnerability alerts for dependencies are fixed or dismissed with a documented reason before the next release.
No release is made while such an alert is open.
- [x] Third-party code included in the repository for testing, such as [doctest](https://github.com/doctest/doctest),
is updated manually.
## Style check
!!! success "Requirement: Common code style"