The invention relates to a WSN pair key management method suitable for unicast communication, and belongs to the field of network security and communication, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, initializing system parameters; S2, enabling two communication parties to mutually authenticate identities; S3, constructing space coordinates of the shared matrix M; s4, enabling the two communication parties to establish a pair key; s5: updating the key. According to the method, on the basis of reducing the storage overhead of each node, the establishment of the pair key and the updatingof the pair key are completed, the dynamic distribution of the pair key management scheme coefficient based on the symmetric polynomial is realized, the security threshold problem of the symmetric polynomial pair key management scheme is overcome, meanwhile, the forward security and the backward security in the whole network operation process are ensured, the key connectivity is relatively high,the network expansion performance is good, and the capability of resisting malicious attacks is very strong.