As announced in Ubuntu Desktop 25.10 - The Questing Quokka Roadmap post, one of the feature we want to develop on this cycle is our TPM/FDE implementation for Ubuntu 25.10. TPM/FDE in a nutshell So, first, what is this about? FDE stands for Full Disk Encryption, providing you a way to ensure that all your content on disk is encrypted and inaccessible at rest. We offer a traditional FDE option for many years in Ubuntu and it’s available during installation: You can then define a passphrase t...
  • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I really want this to be the default, but this sounds super onerous and dangerous at the same time.

    I understand why they do it the way they do it, but prompting for the recovery key to do anything other than recovery would FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT.