Cold boot attack

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Cold boot attack

Quality:

Cold boot attack - means of compromising computer security by restarting the computer. Article “Cold boot attack” in English Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 77 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Cold boot attack” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cold boot attack”, its content was written by 103 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 171 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 47 times in English Wikipedia and cited 122 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #16636 in November 2018
  • Global: #73587 in November 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #64700 in September 2013
  • Global: #107885 in September 2013

There are 9 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)
Cold boot attack
67.5071
2Spanish (es)
Ataque de arranque en frío
40.3044
3Ukrainian (uk)
Cold boot attack
30.9126
4Russian (ru)
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
27.5849
5German (de)
Kaltstartattacke
26.3902
6Chinese (zh)
冷启动攻击
19.0219
7French (fr)
Attaque par démarrage à froid
16.6922
8Portuguese (pt)
Cold boot attack
12.4995
9Persian (fa)
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
10.3259
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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 "Cold boot attack" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Cold boot attack
1 152 839
2German (de)
Kaltstartattacke
83 606
3Russian (ru)
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
51 746
4French (fr)
Attaque par démarrage à froid
33 392
5Spanish (es)
Ataque de arranque en frío
14 418
6Chinese (zh)
冷启动攻击
12 619
7Persian (fa)
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
5 079
8Portuguese (pt)
Cold boot attack
1 959
9Ukrainian (uk)
Cold boot attack
1 489
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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 "Cold boot attack" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Cold boot attack
4 758
2German (de)
Kaltstartattacke
146
3French (fr)
Attaque par démarrage à froid
137
4Russian (ru)
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
106
5Chinese (zh)
冷启动攻击
92
6Spanish (es)
Ataque de arranque en frío
39
7Portuguese (pt)
Cold boot attack
28
8Ukrainian (uk)
Cold boot attack
14
9Persian (fa)
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
4
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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 "Cold boot attack" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Cold boot attack
103
2German (de)
Kaltstartattacke
23
3Spanish (es)
Ataque de arranque en frío
11
4Persian (fa)
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
11
5Russian (ru)
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
9
6French (fr)
Attaque par démarrage à froid
7
7Ukrainian (uk)
Cold boot attack
4
8Portuguese (pt)
Cold boot attack
2
9Chinese (zh)
冷启动攻击
1
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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 "Cold boot attack" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Cold boot attack
3
2German (de)
Kaltstartattacke
0
3Spanish (es)
Ataque de arranque en frío
0
4Persian (fa)
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
0
5French (fr)
Attaque par démarrage à froid
0
6Portuguese (pt)
Cold boot attack
0
7Russian (ru)
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
0
8Ukrainian (uk)
Cold boot attack
0
9Chinese (zh)
冷启动攻击
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 "Cold boot attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Cold boot attack
47
2Russian (ru)
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
15
3Persian (fa)
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
11
4Ukrainian (uk)
Cold boot attack
11
5Chinese (zh)
冷启动攻击
10
6French (fr)
Attaque par démarrage à froid
8
7German (de)
Kaltstartattacke
7
8Portuguese (pt)
Cold boot attack
7
9Spanish (es)
Ataque de arranque en frío
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Kaltstartattacke
enEnglish
Cold boot attack
esSpanish
Ataque de arranque en frío
faPersian
حمله راه‌اندازی سرد
frFrench
Attaque par démarrage à froid
ptPortuguese
Cold boot attack
ruRussian
Атака через холодную перезагрузку
ukUkrainian
Cold boot attack
zhChinese
冷启动攻击

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#64700
09.2013
Global:
#107885
09.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#16636
11.2018
Global:
#73587
11.2018

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Cold boot attack from Wikipedia articles about Tails, Evil maid attack, VeraCrypt, Trusted Platform Module and BitLocker. Whereas reading the article about Cold boot attack people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Reboot, DMA attack, Data remanence, Core dump and Side-channel attack.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Bad Bunny, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein files, Ilia Malinin, Savannah Guthrie, Ghislaine Maxwell, 2026 Winter Olympics, List of Super Bowl halftime shows, Eileen Gu, Jutta Leerdam.

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