diff --git a/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/NoOpPasswordEncoder.java b/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/NoOpPasswordEncoder.java
index 907eb7c718..3c28e16741 100644
--- a/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/NoOpPasswordEncoder.java
+++ b/crypto/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/crypto/password/NoOpPasswordEncoder.java
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ package org.springframework.security.crypto.password;
  * @deprecated This PasswordEncoder is not secure. Instead use an
  * adaptive one way function like BCryptPasswordEncoder, Pbkdf2PasswordEncoder, or
  * SCryptPasswordEncoder. Even better use {@link DelegatingPasswordEncoder} which supports
- * password upgrades.
+ * password upgrades. There are no plans to remove this support. It is deprecated to indicate that
+ * this is a legacy implementation and using it is considered insecure.
  */
 @Deprecated
 public final class NoOpPasswordEncoder implements PasswordEncoder {