Massachusetts Supreme Court says it can order you to decrypt your computer
Imagine a computer decryption program that creates a random number of nonsense files that look like encrypted files but for which no password will work. Now, if the government orders you to decrypt all of your files and you have a file you don't want to decrypt the government won't be able to prove that you have the password to that file since given that you are using the program there will definitely exist files you can't decrypt.
Another way to deal with the issue would be to claim that you memorized the password via a mnemonic like a memory place that's easily destructible. If you fill up a memory place with a bunch of new items, the old memory that stores the password becomes inaccessible because of memory interference.
It's also the only way to protect encrypted files against torture. Have the memory in a form that's easily destroyed. Memory places provide that ability when you overwrite them.
Writing this myself might also be a good precommitment ;)
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