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Re:How I became a password cracker by shared4you on Monday March 25, 2013 @04:11AM (#5435945)
I'm no expert, but [1] says:

> bcrypt is an adaptive password hashing algorithm

[1]: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

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Re:How I became a password cracker by pjscott on Monday March 25, 2013 @01:53PM (#5438485)
Bcrypt is an adaptive password hashing algorithm. Blowfish is a block cipher.
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