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How do you securely handle passwords in Spring Boot?
Tests whether you know to hash with a salted, slow algorithm like BCrypt via PasswordEncoder rather than reversible encryption or a fast general-purpose hash like SHA-256, since password storage needs to resist brute-force, not just obfuscate.
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