System and method to redirect hardware secure USB storage devices in high latency VDI environments

A system comprising:

• a first server;
• one or more central processing units for processing information of the first server;
• a memory of the first server communicatively coupled to the one or more central processing units;
• and
• one or more modules that comprise instructions stored in the memory, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processing units, operable to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, at the server, a disk arrival notification that a hardware secure universal serial bus (USB) storage device has been coupled to a client, wherein the hardware secure USB storage device comprises a chip for handling encryption of data;
• issuing a command by a proxy server of the server to a virtual disk enumerator to create a virtual disk associated with the hardware secure USB storage device;
• loading a disk driver and compact disk read-only memory (CDROM) driver as interfaces to the virtual disk;
• loading a file system stack associated with the disk driver;
• loading a CDROM file system stack associated with the CDROM driver;
• executing a locking application, wherein the locking application resides in the CDROM driver;
• receiving by the locking application a hardware secure password;
• validating by the locking application the hardware secure password;
• and
• unlocking a secured disk interface of the virtual disk, based at least in part, on the validating the hardware secure password.

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software operable when executed by one or more computer systems to:

• receive, at a server, a disk arrival notification that a hardware secure universal serial bus (USB) storage device has been coupled to a client, wherein the hardware secure USB storage device comprises a chip for handling encryption of data;
• issue a command by a proxy server of the server to a virtual disk enumerator to create a virtual disk associated with the hardware secure USB storage device;
• load a disk driver and compact disk read-only memory (CDROM) driver as interfaces to the virtual disk;
• load a file system stack associated with the disk driver;
• load a CDROM file system stack associated with the CDROM driver;
• execute a locking application, wherein the locking application resides in the CDROM driver;
• receive by the locking application a hardware secure password;
• validate by the locking application the hardware secure password;
• and
• unlock a secured disk interface of the virtual disk, based at least in part, on the validating the hardware secure password.