Patent ID: 8052048

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive at least in part 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 operatively supported 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, at least one software component operative to execute in the at least one computer, wherein the at least one computer is operative responsive to the at least one software component to cause the cash dispenser to dispense cash, wherein the at least one computer is operatively configured to use the TPM to produce at least one digitally signed measurement for the at least one software component executing in the at least one computer, wherein the at least one computer is operatively configured to cause the digitally signed measurement to be validated with respect to at least one reference measurement of the at least one software component prior to enabling the cash dispenser to dispense cash.