joomla/joomla-cms — pull request #1745 by elinw (2013-08-15 18:47:55+00:00)
Title: Add support for Bcrypt, use it in remember me and optionally use it for passwords

There is a longer explanation of the background of this in the feature tracker
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=31561&start=0