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[backport#14741] doc: Indicate -rpcauth option password hashing alg
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Authored by majcosta on Oct 26 2020, 19:13.

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dcb70b152292a8df9fe834bacdf231ea848819b1 Indicate -rpcauth option password hashing alg (Carl Dong)

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By indicating the password hashing algorithm, users of bitcoin distributions without the script in `share/rpcauth` and users who don't want to rely on said script can use alternative means to generate the password hash.

Question for reviewers: perhaps we should also indicate that it is specifically a HMAC-SHA-256 of the _**UTF-8**_ encoding of their password?

Backport of Core PR14741

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