Yeah I've been off and on the OpenBSD lists a few times over the years and have said both really dumb stuff and insightful stuff. I'm not so much referring to any specific instance, just saying their reputation for being cranky and unwelcoming is well deserved.

I was wrong about bcrypt being a 192-bit narrow-pipe hash. While some parts of it are, reading the paper again the real work happens in the key expansion function having an internal state size of 33344 bits.