I have forgotten my iphone encryption password

How do i change it?

You won't be able to use that backup, nor change the password, if you can't remember the existing one - from iTunes: About iOS backups :
Warning: Make sure it's a password that you'll remember or write it down for safekeeping. If you encrypt an iPhone backup in iTunes and forget your password, you can't restore from backup and your data will be unrecoverable.
If you can't remember the password and want to start again, you must perform a full software restore and choose set up as a new device when iTunes prompts you to select the backup from which to restore.
If you are using a Mac to backup to then do you know if you stored the password in Keychain - if you did then you might be able to retrieve it by going into Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access, and in that you might be able to find the iPhone's backup password and view it.

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