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andrew ,
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I’m arguing semantics here but bcrypt is the hashing function. Per the Wikipedia article on bcrypt:

bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999.

Blowfish being a symmetric encryption cipher, not a hashing function.

Agreed on the rest, though. The hashing cost of a long password would not lead to DOS any more than the bandwidth of accepting that password etc. It’s not the bottleneck. But also no extra security beyond a point, so might as well not bother when passwords are too long.

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