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Time-travel password that you invented years ago and have never spoken aloud, written down, or even hinted at the contents of outside your own head. Don't leave home without one.
And remember: 1 and 0 are not probabilities, so in the real world, the best you can do is arrange for the maximum amount of convincing evidence that's feasible, not any sort of logically perfect system of absolute certainty.
Wouldn't you forget the password once your memories are wiped?
That depends on how many of your memories are wiped, or if it's episodic memory versus declarative memory, or if it's recent memories versus long-term memories. Remember, enough of your memories have to still exist for you to understand the message, for the problem to make any sense at all.