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by Zamicol 505 days ago
Unfortunately the industry defined Bcrypt as a KDF for some time, even though it is better named as a "password hashing function". Cryptography has a history of being bad at picking good names for new work.

In addition to (true) KDFs, people often want a HKDF (HMAC-based Key Derivation Function) or hierarchical deterministic key derivation function (HDK).