Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10

Canonical's Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop has published a roadmap for the 25.10 release, which includes a feature that was originally planned for 23.10.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement posted the Questing Quokka roadmap to Ubuntu Discourse, and one of the more interesting bits is full-disk encryption backed by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip in compatible computers.

This is something that we reported on nearly two years ago, as it was hoped it would be ready for "Mantic Minotaur," and the company had a detailed blog post about how it was going to work back then. The basics haven't changed much since, but now there's a bit more detail.

Firstly, for clarity, Ubuntu – like most modern Linux distros – already supports Full Disk Encryption (FDE), and it has done for many years. The current version uses a somewhat complex software stack called LUKS, short for Linux Unified ...