Here's the 8th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.
You might be aware of systemd-homed, a small service in systemd which can manage encrypted, portable home directories for you. It supports multiple storage backends, but the most relevant maintains a per-user LUKS disk image for each home directory, and ties the encryption of it to your user's authentication credentials. It supports FIDO2 and PKCS11 (in addition…