Add SECURITY.md with a private vulnerability disclosure path

[ryanhill1]

Adds a SECURITY.md to qbraid-algorithms, which currently has no documented way to report a
vulnerability privately. A researcher's only options today are a public issue, which
discloses the problem to everyone at once, or guessing at an email address.

qBraid/qBraid already carries one; this adapts it for qbraid-algorithms and points at this
repository's own private advisory form.

Two deliberate differences from the qBraid/qBraid version:

• No hardcoded version table. The existing policy pins "0.7.x" as supported, which
  has been stale since 0.8. This one states support for the most recent minor release,
  so it does not need editing on every release.
• A section on upstream dependencies. qbraid-algorithms reaches third-party packages through
  optional extras, and a reporter should know where to send an issue that originates
  upstream, and that we still want to hear about it so we can assess exposure through
  a path this package creates.

Related: qBraid/pyqasm#382.

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• Documentation
  • Added a security policy outlining supported-version updates, private vulnerability reporting, dependency vulnerability handling, response expectations, and information to include in reports.

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Added SECURITY.md with supported-version criteria, private vulnerability reporting instructions, dependency vulnerability guidance, response expectations, and required report details.

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Security Policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Security policy documentation SECURITY.md	Defines supported versions, GitHub private advisory reporting, upstream dependency vulnerability handling, response steps, and required vulnerability report information.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b3c13

The new policy provides a private vulnerability-reporting path, but its guidance may not clearly cover vulnerabilities in direct dependencies, which could misroute reports. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to broaden that wording.

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In `@SECURITY.md`:
- Around line 25-28: Update the security-reporting guidance around
qbraid-algorithms to cover issues originating in any upstream dependency,
including direct dependencies such as qbraid, pyqasm, sympy, scipy, numpy, and
networkx, as well as optional extras. Instruct reporters to report upstream
issues there too and notify this project so exposure through a package-created
path can be assessed.

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[ryanhill1]

Right, and it applied to all three of these PRs rather than just this one. Fixed here and on qBraid/pyqasm#383 and qBraid/qbraid-qir#296.

My original wording scoped the guidance to optional extras, which left direct dependencies uncovered. qbraid-algorithms depends directly on qbraid, pyqasm, sympy, scipy, numpy and networkx, and a vulnerability in any of those reaches users through this package just as surely as one in an extra. It now reads:

If an issue originates in an upstream dependency rather than in qbraid-algorithms itself, whether a direct dependency or one reached through an optional extra, please report it to that project as well and tell us here.