> Make sure your devices are turned off prior to even leaving for the airport.
Security may ask you to turn them back on, not to search them, but to verify that they are actual working devices, and not a bomb.
Security may ask you to turn them back on, not to search them, but to verify that they are actual working devices, and not a bomb.
But never decrypt. If this results in you missing your flight, so be it.
Why? Is that more important to stay locked than miss granma's funeral, or more positively, 75th birthday?
If you're a security person, I suspect his recommendation would be - even though he doesn't understand IT and tech - to say you don't even understand how SSH works or can't tell the difference between encryption and hashing.
As far as the security of the data on the device is concerned, a powered-off device is equivalent to a powered-on device that hasn't been unlocked since it was powered on.