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Fix documentation for sodium_pad#12

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Fix documentation for sodium_pad#12
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The documentation says that sodium_pad uses random data, but it actually
follows a simple algorithm where the first padded byte is 0x80 and the
rest are just 0x00.

This replaces the incorrect documentation with a simple description of
the correct algorithm.

Reported-By: Christophe Diederichs chris.d.itunes@gmail.com
Link: #3

The documentation says that sodium_pad uses random data, but it actually
follows a simple algorithm where the first padded byte is `0x80` and the
rest are just `0x00`.

This replaces the incorrect documentation with a simple description of
the correct algorithm.

Reported-By: Christophe Diederichs <chris.d.itunes@gmail.com>
Link: sodium-friends#3
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