The invention discloses a light DFT-S-OFDM secure transmission system based on a digital chaos. The system comprises three encryption steps all together, i.e., insertion of an OFDM synchronous training sequence, DFT matrix signal preprocessing and subcarrier mapping, wherein an OFDM synchronous training sequence and a subcarrier mapping mode are both generated by a chaotic system, DFT matrix element parameters m and n are generated by the chaotic system, by use of initial value sensitivity and pseudo randomness of the digital chaos, encryption processing is performed on DFT-S-OFDM signals, and thus secret transmission is realized. On one hand, since a security system secret key space is huge, the security of high-speed information transmission can be effectively enhanced, and at the same time, since a DFT matrix can substantially reduce a peak average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM signals, the performance of the transmission system is also improved; and on the other hand, since multiple iteration optimization and multiple discrete Fourier transformation operation are unnecessary in a DFT matrix signal processing system, the whole system has the following advantages: the system architecture is simple, the calculation amount is small, the transceiver cost is low, and transmission of sideband information is unnecessary.