title: JPA - Spring Boot - password encoding
body: <p>I am new to JPA and Spring Boot.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-registration-password-encoding-bcrypt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-registration-password-encoding-bcrypt</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm looking to encode the password -- where would I place this bean -- do I just define it in my application.properties or in the pom.xml</p>