The target may believe one thing in the abstract, but find it hard to hold onto that in the face of unrelenting horrific pain. The torturer has no reason to di

The target may believe one thing in the abstract, but find it hard to hold onto that in the face of unrelenting horrific pain. The torturer has no reason to divulge anything at all to you, let alone useful information like "we're moot sure what information we're looking for." I doubt any target would ever hear that. > you make sure that the secret is encrypted with a key that is split between multiple (mutually unknown) people across multiple jurisdictions, so that there is no harm in divulging your portion of the key the moment you are caught. If you actually know the secret, they're torturing you for that, not your encryption keys.