Patent ID: 7967193

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transactions to be carried out, including: a plurality of devices including: a card reader operative to read card data on user cards corresponding to financial accounts; a cash dispenser; at least one computer in operative connection with the plurality of devices; a housing, wherein the at least one computer and the plurality of devices are in operative connection with the housing; wherein the at least one computer includes a trusted platform module (TPM) in operative connection with the at least one computer inside the housing, wherein the at least one computer is operatively configured to use the TPM to establish encrypted communications between the at least one computer and at least one of the devices, wherein the at least one computer and the at least one device are operatively configured to communicate encrypted operational data between the at least one computer and the at least one device, which operational data is used by at least one of the at least one computer and the at least one device to carry out at least a portion of a financial transaction at the automated banking machine.