Document thread safety.

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- [x] All SecretKey's held in libsodium guarded memory.
- [x] No heap allocations after #initialize when possible.
- [x] Fast. Benchmarks available in `benchmarks`.
- [x] [Most classes are safe to share between threads.](THREAD_SAFETY.md)
- [x] Tested with real crystal threads and will continue to work when crystal officially supports threading.
- [x] Most classes are safe to share between threads. Even
- [ ] Controlled memory wiping (by calling `.close`)
☑ Indicate specs are compared against test vectors from another source.

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### Tested and provably thread safe.
* Sodium::CryptoBox::*
* Sodium::Cipher::Aead::XChaCha20Poly1305Ietf
* Sodium::SecretBox
* Sodium::Sign::*
Notes:
* Only uses stack allocation. Keys are stored in readonly memory.
### Thread safe when hashing, deriving or creating keys **after** setting parameters.
* Sodium::Password::Hash
* Sodium::Password::Key
* Sodium::Password::Key::Create
Notes:
* Don't change parameters between threads without a `Mutex`.
### Keeps state.
* Sodium::Cipher::Chalsa subclasses.
* Sodium::Cipher::SecretStream
* Sodium::Digest::Blake2b
* Sodium::Kdf
Notes:
* Use one instance per thread or wrap in a `Mutex`.
### Not thread safe.
* Sodium::Nonce
Notes:
* Use `Nonce.random` with multiple threads or let the API provide the nonce's for you.
* #increment isn't safe, not even when wrapped in a mutex unless you also wrap #encrypt/#decrypt within
the same #synchronize call.