The invention discloses a
post quantum cryptography identity
authentication and
secure communication method for an on-
orbit satellite, and belongs to the technical field of
information security, and the method comprises the steps that a ground terminal generates a post
quantum public and private key pair, a post
quantum public key is pre-distributed to the on-
orbit satellite for caching, and the post
quantum private key is exclusively held by the ground terminal;
qUIC connection is established between an on-
orbit satellite and a ground terminal, a locally generated
shared secret is packaged by using a cached post-quantum public key to obtain a packaged
ciphertext, a data packet containing the packaged
ciphertext is signed by using a satellite identity private key to obtain an identity
authentication certificate, the identity
authentication certificate is sent to the ground terminal through a
QUIC handshake frame, and the ground terminal is subjected to identity authentication. The ground terminal de-encapsulates the encapsulated
ciphertext by using the post-quantum private key to obtain a
shared secret, verifies the identity authentication
certificate by using the satellite identity public key, and takes the
shared secret as a
session key after the
verification is passed; according to the method, the anti-quantum-
attack security is realized, and meanwhile, the spaceborne calculation overhead is remarkably reduced.