⚡ Bolt: Offload CPU-bound bcrypt hashing to threadpool

[benpiper]

💡 What: Refactored verify_password and get_password_hash in backend/auth.py to be async functions that offload the CPU-bound operations (bcrypt.checkpw and bcrypt.hashpw) to a threadpool using starlette.concurrency.run_in_threadpool. Updated all callers in backend/auth.py and backend/main.py to await these functions.

🎯 Why: Previously, password hashing and verification ran synchronously on the main thread in FastAPI's event loop. Because bcrypt operations are highly CPU-intensive, they blocked the event loop, severely degrading the application's ability to handle concurrent asynchronous requests (e.g., handling other HTTP routes while a user is logging in). Offloading these to a threadpool frees the event loop, improving overall throughput.

📊 Impact: Prevents event loop starvation during authentication endpoints (like /api/auth/login). Micro-benchmarks confirmed the underlying bcrypt operations take ~340ms per call; moving this off the main thread directly increases the app's concurrent request capacity.

🔬 Measurement:

1. Verified behavior manually via test scripts.
2. Ran cd backend && uv run pytest tests/ which completed successfully with all tests passing.
3. Added a journal entry to .jules/bolt.md documenting this event-loop blocking anti-pattern and solution.

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