First, Blowish is a symmetric cipher, while bcrypt is a one-way password hashing algorithm. bcrypt does use Blowfish's expensive keysetup, which is where the confusion comes from.
md5crypt, sha256crypt, and sha512crypt are all password hashing functions that are based on MD5, SHA-256, and SHA-512 respectively, but have introduced a cost parameter to make it expensive for password cracking.
All of them have integrated a salt to prevent precomputed table attacks.
Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: /
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