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A cryptographic hash algorithm is a function which takes a variable size input and produces a fixed size output. The algorithm makes it difficult to find two inputs with the same output or reconstruct the input from the output.

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Password hashing in /etc/shadow

Is it bcrypt like (and in fact hashing and not encrypting) where the key is derived from the password, expanded and then used to encrypt the password itself several times, finally yielding a hash? …
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