Tamper-Proof Hardware Solution and Algorithms for UAV Swarms Operating in Hostile Environments

Abstract

The paper presents a zero-trust approach to ensuring cybersecurity in self-organized UAV swarms operating in hostile or dangerous environments. Depending on task performance and safety considerations, mission-oriented swarms of UAVs may normally change the planned flight routes, update session keys, automatically destroy data when being corrupted, or detect hostile outsiders, which is a significant security factor. The proposed algorithms will make it possible to assert and verify the membership of UAVs within the swarm during the flight. Identification and strong authentication of individual UAVs are based on secure multi-party computations.