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I'm investigating whether I can use bcrypt not just for password hashing, but to encrypt database contents as well. The idea would be to run a strong password through bcrypt (with an appropriately high work factor, so…

I'm working on an authentication system that is a little different than a traditional username and password scheme. Each user is assigned a key, of length N bits. I'm giving the user a "password" with a full N bits of…