Valhalla Legends Archive

Well my question is what is actually encrypted?  The packet has 0x5E, then a 0, then data.  Is it the data after the 0 that you decrypt?  With the zero?  And how are the 0x00 packets and such structured that you recieve from the server.  It's literally a packet starting with 0x00 as the first byte of data?

You rock, thanks for the source!

I've been reading over a few sources for a while, and am trying to do a detailed breakdown of how warden works.  I find the explanation of most guides limiting only by their sheer structure, so I'm going to try to do my own complete guide which should hopefully be very helpful to everyone.

First question I have out the box is, all 0x5E SID_WARDEN packets are encrypted by an RC4 encryption scheme which has a key generated by the first 4 bytes of the CD-Key Hash(This is for W3XP);  is this right?  Where does the random shared data come into play?  I was looking at this link http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Warden_Packets and found the explanations alright, but severely lacking traits of a good technical document.