One-Time-Pad

One-time pad - encryption technique utilizing a one-time pre-shared key at least as long as the encrypted message. Article “One-Time-Pad” in German Wikipedia has 33.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.77 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “One-Time-Pad”, its content was written by 210 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1345 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 101 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1299 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #493 in May 2002
• Global: #426 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #13446 in June 2013
• Global: #27184 in November 2012

There are 29 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Eingongslykel		64.7367
2	English (en) One-time pad		61.3086
3	Estonian (et) Ühekordne šifriplokk		38.3138
4	Persian (fa) پد یک‌بار مصرف		37.3996
5	German (de) One-Time-Pad		33.7052
6	Greek (el) Σημειωματάριο μιας χρήσης		32.0563
7	Catalan (ca) Bloc d'un sol ús		30.4595
8	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		27.7173
9	Portuguese (pt) One-time pad		23.9488
10	Norwegian (no) Engangsnøkkel		23.6481

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "One-Time-Pad" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) One-time pad		4 571 969
2	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		955 552
3	German (de) One-Time-Pad		744 654
4	French (fr) Masque jetable		303 739
5	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		269 912
6	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		255 012
7	Polish (pl) Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym		238 604
8	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		206 891
9	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		135 769
10	Chinese (zh) 一次性密碼本		112 177

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "One-Time-Pad" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) One-time pad		17 384
2	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		5 825
3	German (de) One-Time-Pad		1 508
4	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		961
5	French (fr) Masque jetable		840
6	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		581
7	Chinese (zh) 一次性密碼本		361
8	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		310
9	Polish (pl) Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym		287
10	Simple English (simple) One-time pad		286

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "One-Time-Pad" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) One-time pad		453
2	German (de) One-Time-Pad		210
3	French (fr) Masque jetable		91
4	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		82
5	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		66
6	Dutch (nl) One-time pad		57
7	Polish (pl) Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym		43
8	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		38
9	Hebrew (he) פנקס חד-פעמי		37
10	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		30

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "One-Time-Pad" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) One-time pad		2
2	Estonian (et) Ühekordne šifriplokk		1
3	Arabic (ar) لوحة المرة الواحدة		0
4	Catalan (ca) Bloc d'un sol ús		0
5	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		0
6	Danish (da) One-time pad		0
7	German (de) One-Time-Pad		0
8	Greek (el) Σημειωματάριο μιας χρήσης		0
9	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		0
10	Persian (fa) پد یک‌بار مصرف		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "One-Time-Pad" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) One-time pad		233
2	Hebrew (he) פנקס חד-פעמי		227
3	German (de) One-Time-Pad		101
4	Arabic (ar) لوحة المرة الواحدة		79
5	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		71
6	Chinese (zh) 一次性密碼本		62
7	French (fr) Masque jetable		58
8	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		56
9	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		50
10	Dutch (nl) One-time pad		47

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لوحة المرة الواحدة
ca	Catalan Bloc d'un sol ús
cs	Czech Vernamova šifra
da	Danish One-time pad
de	German One-Time-Pad
el	Greek Σημειωματάριο μιας χρήσης
en	English One-time pad
es	Spanish Libreta de un solo uso
et	Estonian Ühekordne šifriplokk
fa	Persian پد یک‌بار مصرف
fi	Finnish One-time pad
fr	French Masque jetable
he	Hebrew פנקס חד-פעמי
hr	Croatian Jednokratni ključ
it	Italian Cifrario di Vernam
ja	Japanese ワンタイムパッド
ko	Korean 원 타임 패드
lt	Lithuanian Vienkartinis bloknotas
nl	Dutch One-time pad
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Eingongslykel
no	Norwegian Engangsnøkkel
pl	Polish Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym
pt	Portuguese One-time pad
ru	Russian Шифр Вернама
simple	Simple English One-time pad
sv	Swedish Blankettchiffer
tr	Turkish Tek kullanımlık şifre
uk	Ukrainian Шифр Вернама
zh	Chinese 一次性密碼本

Best Rank

German: #13446 06.2013

Global: #27184 11.2012

Best Rank

German: #493 05.2002

Global: #426 07.2002

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