add docs to utils and expose constant_time_cmp()
to consumers
#469
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Broken out of #287.
This key comparison method is useful to have for downstream consumers to avoid leaking timing information when comparing bytes. If downstream consumers of the
libsignal
crate wish to implement their own structs wrapping secret bytes, they now have a clearly documented example of how to implement that.