Patent 7483423 was granted and assigned to Intel on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided are a techniques for storing information in a packet. A data integrity operation is performed over one portion of the packet to calculate an integrity check value using a secret key. The data transformation operation is performed over another selectable portion of the packet to store the integrity check value in the other portion of the packet, without increasing a size of the packet.