There's no way a USB anything can transparently emulate a floppy drive without a driver being preinstalled. You'd obviously need to have a drive and disk first in order to pull the images from 'real' disks. This just emulates a floppy based on an image stored on hard disk and could be a solution for many problems. You'd probably be much better off by buying a bunch of HD disks and storing them well.Īnother, entirely different, but possibly long-term method to make Windows XP think it has a floppy drive would be a virtual floppy driver.

Once you find one that does this, it will most probably also boot from a standard USB flash stick.

Old computer's abilities to for example boot from USB floppies have always been very limited (even if they could always boot very well from standard floppy drives). This is, however, never going to be a full replacement for a 'real' floppy disk drive. Putting it all together would end you up with something that behaves like a real floppy, connected over USB. Some sort of external power supply, as the GoTek/HxC will not be willing to live from the USB power supply.Newer USB floppy drives no longer have this as I have learned from answers to this question. I don't think they're still made, so you would need to source one from eBay. An old Floppy-to-USB adapter that was used to connect 'real' floppies over USB.A GoTek or HxC that behaves like a 'real' floppy.There are, however, components on the market that should allow you to build that from scratch: What is the key size ? It is the same than the AES provider: RSA Key length – Can be set, 384 bits to 16,384 bits in 8-bit increments.I don't think anyone sells something like that in one piece.How PIN failure is handled ? The failed authentication attempts are limited to 3, like a real smart card.The copy of the token will not be recognized. Can the token be copied ? The token is encrypted using the token fingerprint, including the serial number if available, which can’t be copied.Can the private key be exported ? There is NO API to export the private keys.Computation are made into the UMDF host process isolated from all other processes. Private data are encrypted twice : first using an USB Key fingerprint and second using a PIN derivate. EIDVirtual as been carefully design to protect private keys and the PIN.

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