Patent ID: 7873839

Claim:
An information reproducing apparatus using an operating system, comprising: a secure module that stores a first information and a second information in the secure module, the secure module being inaccessible from outside the information reproducing apparatus; a memory that stores a third information updated by an updating unit, the third information used to reproduce the second information in an unswappable area thereof, the memory being inaccessible from outside; a falsification checking unit that is loaded on the secure module, wherein the falsification checking unit reads the third information from the memory by a direct access without using a driver that operates using the operating system, compares the third information with the first information in the secure module, and checks a falsification of the third information based on a result of the comparison; and a transmitting unit that transmits the second information stored in the storing unit to the memory using the driver when the falsification of the third information stored in the memory is not found by the falsification checking unit.