diff --git a/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/PasswordEncoder.java b/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/PasswordEncoder.java
index 1e4e137e4e..c333486b30 100644
--- a/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/PasswordEncoder.java
+++ b/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/PasswordEncoder.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ package org.springframework.security.crypto.password;
 
 import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
 
-/**
+/**`
  * Service interface for encoding passwords.
  *
  * The preferred implementation is {@code BCryptPasswordEncoder}.