Clarify the documentation of `normalize_s`
I was reading the docs for `normalize_s` and got confused what the point was - it says that libsecp "will only accept" signatures that are normalized, which led me to believe it would refuse to deserialize such signatures. This is untrue, it only refuses to *validate* such signatures.
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/// changing even the signature itself can be a problem. Such applications
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/// require a "strong signature". It is believed that ECDSA is a strong
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/// signature except for this ambiguity in the sign of s, so to accommodate
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/// these applications libsecp256k1 will only accept signatures for which
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/// s is in the lower half of the field range. This eliminates the
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/// these applications libsecp256k1 considers signatures for which s is in
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/// the upper half of the field range invalid. This eliminates the
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/// ambiguity.
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///
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/// However, for some systems, signatures with high s-values are considered
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