The present invention relates to a
secure communication method for a cluster of
electric power inspection drones, and belongs to the field of
encryption communication technology.
Unicast and
multicast communications are used between clusters of
electric power inspection drones to transmit
electric power inspection tasks and control instruction messages; when a sending
drone sends a message through
unicast communication, the message is encrypted using the
Signal protocol, and an extended triple Diffie-Hellman calculation is used to generate a shared key, and after double ratcheting the message is encrypted, the encrypted message is sent; when communicating through
multicast, the sending
drone uses online / offline attribute-based
encryption (CP-ABE) to encrypt the message, and the dispatch center partially decrypts the message. When the receiving
drone is online, the receiving message is completely decrypted. The present invention prevents the illegal theft of electric power inspection data by adopting a more efficient
encryption method in
unicast and
multicast communications, reduces the calculation amount of the drone, and improves the security of drone cluster communication.