security: make CI gates blocking, add smoke test, clean up dead code

- gitleaks, cargo audit, trivy fs now block pipeline on findings
- add smoke test (docker run + curl /health) in release workflow
- deny.toml: add review date to RUSTSEC-2025-0119 ignore
- remove unused validation functions (maven, npm, crate)
- replace blanket #![allow(dead_code)] with targeted allows

nora-registry/src/secrets/mod.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2026 Volkov Pavel | DevITWay
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
-#![allow(dead_code)] // Foundational code for future S3/Vault integration
 
 //! Secrets management for NORA
 //!
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ use async_trait::async_trait;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use thiserror::Error;
 
+#[allow(dead_code)] // Variants used by provider impls; external error handling planned for v0.4
 /// Secrets provider error
 #[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum SecretsError {
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ pub enum SecretsError {
 #[async_trait]
 pub trait SecretsProvider: Send + Sync {
     /// Get a secret by key (required)
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
     async fn get_secret(&self, key: &str) -> Result<ProtectedString, SecretsError>;
 
     /// Get a secret by key (optional, returns None if not found)
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
     async fn get_secret_optional(&self, key: &str) -> Option<ProtectedString> {
         self.get_secret(key).await.ok()
     }

nora-registry/src/secrets/protected.rs

@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@ use zeroize::{Zeroize, Zeroizing};
 /// - Implements Zeroize: memory is overwritten with zeros when dropped
 /// - Debug shows `***REDACTED***` instead of actual value
 /// - Clone creates a new protected copy
+#[allow(dead_code)] // Used internally by SecretsProvider impls; external callers planned for v0.4
 #[derive(Clone, Zeroize)]
 #[zeroize(drop)]
 pub struct ProtectedString {
     inner: String,
 }
 
+#[allow(dead_code)]
 impl ProtectedString {
     /// Create a new protected string
     pub fn new(value: String) -> Self {
@@ -68,6 +70,7 @@ impl From<&str> for ProtectedString {
 }
 
 /// S3 credentials with protected secrets
+#[allow(dead_code)] // S3 storage backend planned for v0.4
 #[derive(Clone, Zeroize)]
 #[zeroize(drop)]
 pub struct S3Credentials {
@@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ pub struct S3Credentials {
     pub region: Option<String>,
 }
 
+#[allow(dead_code)]
 impl S3Credentials {
     pub fn new(access_key_id: String, secret_access_key: String) -> Self {
         Self {