---
title: "Minimum hardware requirements"
source_url: https://dev.digicert.com/trustcore-sdk/nanossl/get-started/minimum-hardware-requirements.html
---

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## Supported hardware and software

To run NanoSSL, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

- **Supported host processor and operating system** Refer to the *GDOC-IMAT-0001_Porting_Mocana_IoT_Security_Platform_Code* for a detailed list of supported processors and operating systems.
- **Persistent data storage** Required storage options include data flash, SD-card, or a hard disk.
- **Native file system interface** Essential for file management operations within the system.
- **Network interface** A TCP/IP network interface is required for network communications.

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## Disk and RAM requirements

The disk space and RAM required to compile and run NanoSSL depends on several factors, including the processor architecture (32/64-bit), operating system, compile flags, and compiler optimizations. Below are rough estimates for file sizes and memory (code and data space) requirements.

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### For Intel x86 (64-bit) on Linux

**libnanossl.a (355KB)**: Includes client and server, with TLS and DTLS

```markdown
| Text   | Data  | BSS  | Total   |
|--------|-------|------|---------|
| 101173 | 1480  | 1292 | 103945  |
```

**libnanocrypto.a (734KB)**: Includes NSA Suite B ciphers

```markdown
| Text   | Data  | BSS  | Total   |
|--------|-------|------|---------|
| 336260 | 2648  | 356  | 339264  |
```

**libopenssl_shim.a (235KB)**

```markdown
| Text   | Data  | BSS  | Total   |
|--------|-------|------|---------|
| 41693  | 21400 | 180  | 63273   |
```

**libcrypto.a (4,494KB)**: Includes OpenSSL crypto and TrustCore SDK EVP engine shim

```markdown
| Text    | Data   | BSS   | Total    |
|---------|--------|-------|----------|
| 1627486 | 168513 | 17370 | 1813369  |
```

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### For ARM (32-bit) on Linux

**libnanossl.a (234KB)**: Includes client and server, with TLS and DTLS

```markdown
| Text  | Data | BSS  | Total  |
|-------|------|------|--------|
| 88181 | 884  | 1136 | 90201  |
```

**libnanocrypto.a (574KB)**: Includes NSA Suite B ciphers

```markdown
| Text   | Data  | BSS  | Total   |
|--------|-------|------|---------|
| 309280 | 1748  | 292  | 311320  |
```

**libopenssl_shim.a (139KB)**

```markdown
| Text  | Data  | BSS  | Total  |
|-------|-------|------|--------|
| 36744 | 11600 | 116  | 48460  |
```

**libcrypto.a (2,898KB)**: Includes OpenSSL crypto and TrustCore SDK EVP engine shim

```markdown
| Text    | Data  | BSS   | Total    |
|---------|-------|-------|----------|
| 1151624 | 88533 | 15514 | 1255671  |
```