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With the recognition that the export restrictions are based on potential military application by a nation-state adversary which may require time and other hardware and software to realize and that the permission to search for weapons incident to arrest centers around immediate physical danger to the arresting officer and others from the item itself, so the two things are not concerned with even remotely the same considerations.

This is the only response to my question that seems solid.

> along with the notion that encryption algorithms are considered munitions worthy of export restrictions?

Simple: The same way an agent can't open your car trunk even if it may contain one of 1. groceries or 2.war weapons.

Not an attorney, of course. Those two things don't tie together I think. Encryption can't make a phone explode, so it's not a munition.

"physical aspects"

Yep. Also the "munitions" line became false something like 17 years ago when encryption export controls moved from State to Commerce.