In the next diff this function will be used to replace a bcrypt hash with a sha256 one. I want to do that in this function to avoid introducing any new SQL queries. extendCookieLifespan already runs very frequently, so it's a good place to make this change to ensure that we quickly migrate to sha256 hashes.
Ahead of that change, this diff renames the function and updates it to take a full Viewer parameter.
Depends on D9546