Encryption process for any outgoing packet to the specified "remote IP": -original payload P is encrypted (the bytes after the IP header) using RC4 with the given "key" to obtain encrypted payload C=RC4(P, key) -The encrypted payload P is concatenated with 16 bytes of md5(C|key), and the IP header is adjusted accordingly (increasing the packet total length, re-calculate the checksum) so that the outgoing packet will have payload C|md5(C|key) to "remote IP" Decryption process for any incoming packet from specified "remote IP": -Check the packet payload for the MD5 authentication with the same given "key" Specifically, divide the received packet payload (those bytes after the IP header) as two parts C, A where A is the last 16 bytes of the packet payload and C is the rest. -If (md5(C|key) == A), decrypt C using RC4 with the given "key" to obtain P=RC4(C, key), change the payload of the incoming packet from C|A to P, and adjust the IP header accordingly (decrease the packet total length, re-calculate the checksum) so that the incoming packet will be restored to its original form without keyed md5 authentication before sent to the receiving process