No, I would expect wp_user_update to have been what gets used, but I find your motives dubious, and cannot think of a reasonable use for what you want to do
But if you really want to go down this path, use the pre_user_pass filter.
I would also note that there is a reason why passwords are stored as hashes, rather than encrypted, and your code has no encryption mechanism
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