Security through obscurity

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Security through obscurity

Quality:

Security through obscurity - secrecy of the design or implementation as the main method of providing security. Article "Security through obscurity" in Czech Wikipedia has 10 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Security through obscurity", its content was written by 14 registered users of Czech Wikipedia and edited by 563 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Czech Wikipedia and cited 360 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Czech): #4047 in September 2015
  • Global: #1958 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Czech): #40317 in January 2022
  • Global: #75860 in October 2010

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Security through obscurity
29.1345
2German (de)
Security through obscurity
27.8194
3Norwegian (no)
Sikkerhet gjennom uklarhet
26.8383
4Chinese (zh)
隱晦式安全
26.1912
5Greek (el)
Ασφάλεια μέσω αφάνειας
25.3674
6Ukrainian (uk)
Безпека через неясність
21.7032
7Russian (ru)
Безопасность через неясность
18.5738
8Catalan (ca)
Seguretat per la foscor
18.394
9Polish (pl)
Security through obscurity
17.6293
10French (fr)
Sécurité par l'obscurité
13.7322
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Security through obscurity" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Security through obscurity
1 651 720
2German (de)
Security through obscurity
290 737
3Russian (ru)
Безопасность через неясность
139 396
4Spanish (es)
Seguridad por oscuridad
110 102
5French (fr)
Sécurité par l'obscurité
107 288
6Polish (pl)
Security through obscurity
52 270
7Italian (it)
Sicurezza tramite segretezza
32 568
8Dutch (nl)
Security through obscurity
28 960
9Czech (cs)
Security through obscurity
21 932
10Portuguese (pt)
Segurança por obscurantismo
11 364
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Security through obscurity" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Security through obscurity
5 959
2German (de)
Security through obscurity
677
3Russian (ru)
Безопасность через неясность
426
4French (fr)
Sécurité par l'obscurité
224
5Spanish (es)
Seguridad por oscuridad
185
6Italian (it)
Sicurezza tramite segretezza
94
7Polish (pl)
Security through obscurity
94
8Czech (cs)
Security through obscurity
65
9Chinese (zh)
隱晦式安全
64
10Portuguese (pt)
Segurança por obscurantismo
60
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Security through obscurity" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Security through obscurity
237
2German (de)
Security through obscurity
99
3French (fr)
Sécurité par l'obscurité
55
4Italian (it)
Sicurezza tramite segretezza
36
5Russian (ru)
Безопасность через неясность
25
6Spanish (es)
Seguridad por oscuridad
23
7Dutch (nl)
Security through obscurity
17
8Polish (pl)
Security through obscurity
15
9Czech (cs)
Security through obscurity
14
10Hebrew (he)
אבטחה באמצעות עמימות
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Security through obscurity" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Persian (fa)
امنیت از طریق ابهام
3
2French (fr)
Sécurité par l'obscurité
1
3Arabic (ar)
الأمن من خلال الغموض
0
4Catalan (ca)
Seguretat per la foscor
0
5Czech (cs)
Security through obscurity
0
6German (de)
Security through obscurity
0
7Greek (el)
Ασφάλεια μέσω αφάνειας
0
8English (en)
Security through obscurity
0
9Spanish (es)
Seguridad por oscuridad
0
10Hebrew (he)
אבטחה באמצעות עמימות
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Security through obscurity" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Sécurité par l'obscurité
88
2English (en)
Security through obscurity
81
3Portuguese (pt)
Segurança por obscurantismo
41
4German (de)
Security through obscurity
30
5Spanish (es)
Seguridad por oscuridad
22
6Russian (ru)
Безопасность через неясность
16
7Czech (cs)
Security through obscurity
15
8Italian (it)
Sicurezza tramite segretezza
13
9Arabic (ar)
الأمن من خلال الغموض
12
10Polish (pl)
Security through obscurity
8
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الأمن من خلال الغموض
caCatalan
Seguretat per la foscor
csCzech
Security through obscurity
deGerman
Security through obscurity
elGreek
Ασφάλεια μέσω αφάνειας
enEnglish
Security through obscurity
esSpanish
Seguridad por oscuridad
faPersian
امنیت از طریق ابهام
frFrench
Sécurité par l'obscurité
heHebrew
אבטחה באמצעות עמימות
huHungarian
Bizonytalanságon alapuló biztonság
itItalian
Sicurezza tramite segretezza
nlDutch
Security through obscurity
noNorwegian
Sikkerhet gjennom uklarhet
plPolish
Security through obscurity
ptPortuguese
Segurança por obscurantismo
ruRussian
Безопасность через неясность
ukUkrainian
Безпека через неясність
zhChinese
隱晦式安全

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Czech:
#40317
01.2022
Global:
#75860
10.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Czech:
#4047
09.2015
Global:
#1958
12.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Security through obscurity from Wikipedia articles about Kerckhoffs’s principle, Robots.txt, Steganography, LockPickingLawyer and Telegram. Whereas reading the article about Security through obscurity people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Kerckhoffs’s principle, Cypherpunk, Secure by design, Steganography and Open security.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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