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burgerbrain
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Bcrypt is a hash. Hash is a general term.
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Okay, yes. By 'hash', I meant generic, general purpose hashing function. MD5. SHA-1. SHA-2. SHA-3 (any of the finalists). Anything that is fast enough that you would use it to compute a cryptographically secure checksum of a large block of data.
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