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Wireless Sensor Network, 2010, 2, 645-648 doi:10.4236/wsn.2010.28076 Published Online August 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn) Considerations and Open Issues in Delay Tolerant Network’S (DTNs) Security Harminder Singh Bindra, Amrit Lal Sangal Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India E-mail: bindra.harminder@ Received April 10, 2010; revised May 21, 2010; accepted June 2, 2010 Abstract Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) addresses challenges of providing end-to-end service where end-to-end data forwarding paths may not exist. Security and privacy are crucial to the wide deployments of DTN. Without security and privacy guarantees, people are reluctant to accept such a new network paradigm. To address the security and privacy issues in DTNs, we in this paper have discussed the various open issues and challenges which need to be addressed to evolve the secure DTNs. Keywords: Delay Tolerant Network, Routing, Security, Cryptography 1. Introduction tocol suite. 5) Applications need not worry about communication performance. 6) End-point-based security mechanisms are sufficient for meeting most security concerns. 7) Packet switching is the most appropriate abstraction for interoperability and performance. 8) Selecting a single route between sender and re- ceiver is sufficient for achieving acceptable commu- nication performance. A delay tolerant network is a newly emerging network [1], which usually deals with communications in extreme challenging environments, such as space communica- tions and networking in sparsely populated areas [2], vehicular ad hoc networks [3,4] and underwater sensor networking [5]. In these environments, the continuous end-to-end paths between the source and the destination are usually unguar anteed. The DTN architecture relaxes most of these assump- tions－it uses variable-length messages as the commu- nication abstraction and a naming syntax tha