This document discusses trust based routing in wireless sensor networks. It describes the characteristics and applications of sensor networks, and different types of attacks they face including passive attacks like traffic analysis and active attacks that aim to modify or fabricate routing information. It then proposes a trust based routing model for sensor networks that calculates direct trust between neighboring nodes based on their packet forwarding behavior, and propagates this trust information through route requests to enable computation of trust beyond single hops. This model aims to secure routing against active attacks in infrastructure-less sensor networks.