PROACTIVE IDENTITY PRE-SHARED KEY CACHE FOR WIRELESS CLIENTS AT WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK CONTROLLER OR ACCESS POINT

Techniques are described herein for downloading an Identity Pre-Shared Key (iPSK) passphrase to an Access Point (AP) before Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) is initiated. iPSK may be an individual PSK per client Media Access Control (MAC) address. This may help support Wi-Fi® Protected Access 3 (WPA3) SAE clients