Block cipher

Block cipher - cipher that works on fixed-size blocks of bits. Article “Block cipher” in English Wikipedia has 62 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 55 references and 35 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 15.49 points.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Block cipher” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Block cipher”, its content was written by 199 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 784 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 733 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2747 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1478 in June 2002
• Global: #2178 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56213 in April 2015
• Global: #57116 in April 2015

There are 30 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, 2026 (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	Hebrew (he) צופן בלוקים		63.0943
2	English (en) Block cipher		61.9601
3	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		58.2038
4	Indonesian (id) Penyandian blok		54.5986
5	Slovak (sk) Bloková šifra		54.5852
6	Portuguese (pt) Cifra de bloco		49.2246
7	Turkish (tr) Blok şifreleme		47.2282
8	Arabic (ar) معمي الفدر		42.6806
9	Swedish (sv) Blockchiffer		40.2067
10	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری قالبی		36.1919

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Block cipher" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Block cipher		2 240 863
2	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		396 359
3	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		361 384
4	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		265 086
5	Spanish (es) Cifrado por bloques		203 318
6	Polish (pl) Szyfr blokowy		135 275
7	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		106 858
8	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		103 536
9	Chinese (zh) 分组密码		102 000
10	Korean (ko) 블록 암호		56 538

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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 "Block cipher" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Block cipher		2 797
2	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		401
3	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		373
4	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		239
5	Chinese (zh) 分组密码		224
6	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		169
7	Polish (pl) Szyfr blokowy		158
8	Spanish (es) Cifrado por bloques		141
9	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		122
10	Simple English (simple) Block cipher		49

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

Language versions of the article "Block cipher" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Block cipher		199
2	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		86
3	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		56
4	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		51
5	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		49
6	Hebrew (he) צופן בלוקים		44
7	Dutch (nl) Blokvercijfering		39
8	Turkish (tr) Blok şifreleme		28
9	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		26
10	Polish (pl) Szyfr blokowy		25

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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 "Block cipher" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) معمي الفدر		1
2	English (en) Block cipher		1
3	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		1
4	Indonesian (id) Penyandian blok		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bloklu şifr		0
6	Catalan (ca) Xifratge per blocs		0
7	Czech (cs) Bloková šifra		0
8	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		0
9	Greek (el) Κρυπτογραφικοί Αλγόριθμοι Δέσμης		0
10	Spanish (es) Cifrado por bloques		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 "Block cipher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Block cipher		733
2	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		215
3	Hebrew (he) צופן בלוקים		212
4	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		176
5	Chinese (zh) 分组密码		176
6	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		164
7	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		160
8	Ukrainian (uk) Блоковий шифр		146
9	Korean (ko) 블록 암호		118
10	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		109

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معمي الفدر
az	Azerbaijani Bloklu şifr
ca	Catalan Xifratge per blocs
cs	Czech Bloková šifra
de	German Blockverschlüsselung
el	Greek Κρυπτογραφικοί Αλγόριθμοι Δέσμης
en	English Block cipher
es	Spanish Cifrado por bloques
fa	Persian رمزنگاری قالبی
fr	French Chiffrement par bloc
he	Hebrew צופן בלוקים
id	Indonesian Penyandian blok
it	Italian Cifratura a blocchi
ja	Japanese ブロック暗号
ko	Korean 블록 암호
ms	Malay Sifer blok
nl	Dutch Blokvercijfering
no	Norwegian Blokkchiffer
pl	Polish Szyfr blokowy
pt	Portuguese Cifra de bloco
ro	Romanian Cifru pe blocuri
ru	Russian Блочный шифр
simple	Simple English Block cipher
sk	Slovak Bloková šifra
sv	Swedish Blockchiffer
ta	Tamil மறைக் குறியீட்டு அலகு
tr	Turkish Blok şifreleme
uk	Ukrainian Блоковий шифр
vi	Vietnamese Mã hóa khối
zh	Chinese 分组密码

Best Rank

English: #56213 04.2015

Global: #57116 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #1478 06.2002

Global: #2178 06.2002

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