explain from where, why and when yescrypt

I was puzzled by this news entry: it just brought more questions to my mind than anything else. Another question I actually had was "what was it before anyways" and "how do I tell" what I'm using now, but I'm only answering the former ("SHA-512") and not the latter ($6$ is SHA-512 and $y$ is yescrypt).

I also considered linking to crypt(5) to clarify the latter, maybe that could be useful as well?

I'm not convinced the tracker.debian.org link helps, but adding "from SHA-512" makes sense. Maybe add

(see <ulink url="https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/libcrypt-dev/crypt.5.html">crypt(5)</ulink>)

either after the "password hash" or at the end of the sentence, after the Openwall link?

I'm not convinced the tracker.debian.org link helps

certainly helped me find the rationale...

either after the "password hash" or at the end of the sentence, after the Openwall link?

would be happy to!

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Locally rebased and ready to push. Thanks.

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