Follow the steps outlined in section 2.3 of the Fuse 6.2 Security Guide (1) to encrypt a property placeholder in the activemq.xml file. Choose one of the stronger ciphers like, PBEWITHHMACSHA224ANDAES_128. When starting the Fuse container, the broker will not start because of the following exception: org.jasypt.exceptions.EncryptionOperationNotPossibleException at org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEByteEncryptor.decrypt(StandardPBEByteEncryptor.java:1055)[26:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jasypt:1.9.2.1] at org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEStringEncryptor.decrypt(StandardPBEStringEncryptor.java:725)[26:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jasypt:1.9.2.1] at org.jasypt.properties.PropertyValueEncryptionUtils.decrypt(PropertyValueEncryptionUtils.java:72)[26:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jasypt:1.9.2.1] at org.jasypt.spring31.properties.EncryptablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.convertPropertyValue(EncryptablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.java:109)[187:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jasypt-spring31:1.9.2.1] If you revert back to one of the weaker ciphers, the exception no longer occurs. I have attached an example activemq.xml and corresponding properties file that includes the encrypted password. (1) https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Fuse/6.2/html/Security_Guide/FMQSecurityEncryptProperties.html