Looking at [the spec](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0004.html#protocol-field)
it seems valid not to have a `var` attribute set, at least for fields of type
`fixed` that is:
> If the element type is anything other than "fixed" (see below), it MUST
> possess a 'var' attribute that uniquely identifies the field in the context
> of the form (if it is "fixed", it MAY possess a 'var' attribute). The element
> MAY possess a 'label' attribute that defines a human-readable name for the field.
Version 0.21 replaced base64::decode() with an Engine trait and multiple
structs implementing it for various alphabets, various performance
profiles, etc. It is slightly longer to import but in the end does the
very same thing.