receives probe beacon messages from genuine aps that are of no interest to the mc but it still has to process them which is a wastage of cpu battery resources 2 users that host false ap malicious ap in the vicinity of an enterprise corporate network or residential areas can perform attacks to degrade the performance of mcs by depleting their resources and also exhausting the radio resources 3 traditional authentication mechanisms including ieee 802 11i provide mutual authentication only after the association phase and this means that the messages exchanged prior to the authentication phase are not verified for authenticity which also leaves the mac address open for spoofing and other attacks this invention requires the prior knowledge of public or shared keys of access points and their respective medium access control mac addresses by the mobile client the assumption here is that the mobile clients are required to be aware of the access point s that it wants to be connected to in advance and have a list of either the shared or public keys for the respective aps and vice versa until now the wlan access has focused mainly from a hotspot scenario where a mc that moves from one hotspot to another requests connection to any ap regardless of its mac address security offered etc in the present case the focus is to connect to a specific ap or a known list of specific aps that the mc trusts to offer certain services security services for example the solution provided by the present invention is meant to be used in conjunction with ieee 802 11i standards and not meant to be a competitor to the standards this invention increases the level.