Patent ID: 11877154
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code executable by one or more computer processors to perform an operation, the operation comprising:
prior to establishing a connection with a wireless network comprising a service set identifier (SSID), receiving a network message at a wireless station (STA) from an access point (AP) associated with the wireless network;
identifying an encrypted identifier in the network message, wherein the encrypted identifier comprises encrypted information relating to the wireless network comprising the SSID;
validating the encrypted identifier comprising encrypted information relating to the wireless network, and in response determining that the AP corresponds to a trusted wireless network, wherein validating, at the STA, the encrypted identifier comprises:
identifying a trusted vendor associated with the AP;
decrypting the encrypted identifier using a key associated with the trusted vendor, wherein the key is delivered to the STA by a service associated with the trusted vendor; and
validating the decrypted identifier, wherein the encrypted identifier is generated by the trusted vendor; and

designating the SSID as trusted.