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Use subgroup order in ElGamal encryption (GH #1059, CVE-2021-40530)
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The CVE and change are due to On the (in)security of ElGamal in OpenPGP.
Previously Crypto++ used an estimate of work factor to select the size of the exponents used in ElGamal encryption. After this change the library uses the subgroup order to select the size of the exponents.