Cryptographic nonce

Nonce - arbitrary number used only once in a cryptographic communication, often random. Article “Cryptographic nonce” in English Wikipedia has 21.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.13 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Cryptographic nonce”, its content was written by 93 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 211 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 643 times in English Wikipedia and cited 987 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15602 in March 2017
• Global: #44016 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22008 in October 2017
• Global: #39568 in December 2017

There are 15 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	German (de) Nonce		26.8469
2	Catalan (ca) Nonce (criptografia)		25.1502
3	English (en) Cryptographic nonce		21.4997
4	French (fr) Nonce (cryptographie)		16.9364
5	Chinese (zh) Nonce		14.6099
6	Portuguese (pt) Nonce		10.8624
7	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری نانس		10.4376
8	Ukrainian (uk) Криптографічний нонс		10.1412
9	Japanese (ja) ノンス		7.2643
10	Russian (ru) Nonce		3.8188

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Cryptographic nonce" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cryptographic nonce		2 796 437
2	German (de) Nonce		224 619
3	Japanese (ja) ノンス		85 693
4	Russian (ru) Nonce		83 952
5	French (fr) Nonce (cryptographie)		83 470
6	Chinese (zh) Nonce		71 397
7	Italian (it) Nonce		61 800
8	Arabic (ar) الرقم الخاص		51 496
9	Portuguese (pt) Nonce		20 307
10	Spanish (es) Nonce		9 975

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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 "Cryptographic nonce" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cryptographic nonce		7 387
2	German (de) Nonce		957
3	Czech (cs) Kryptografická nonce		303
4	French (fr) Nonce (cryptographie)		301
5	Japanese (ja) ノンス		283
6	Russian (ru) Nonce		275
7	Chinese (zh) Nonce		231
8	Italian (it) Nonce		174
9	Spanish (es) Nonce		173
10	Arabic (ar) الرقم الخاص		88

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cryptographic nonce		93
2	German (de) Nonce		42
3	French (fr) Nonce (cryptographie)		20
4	Italian (it) Nonce		12
5	Russian (ru) Nonce		9
6	Arabic (ar) الرقم الخاص		7
7	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری نانس		6
8	Japanese (ja) ノンス		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Nonce		4
10	Czech (cs) Kryptografická nonce		3

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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 "Cryptographic nonce" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الرقم الخاص		0
2	Catalan (ca) Nonce (criptografia)		0
3	Czech (cs) Kryptografická nonce		0
4	German (de) Nonce		0
5	English (en) Cryptographic nonce		0
6	Spanish (es) Nonce		0
7	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری نانس		0
8	French (fr) Nonce (cryptographie)		0
9	Italian (it) Nonce		0
10	Japanese (ja) ノンス		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 "Cryptographic nonce" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Cryptographic nonce		643
2	French (fr) Nonce (cryptographie)		107
3	Portuguese (pt) Nonce		44
4	Italian (it) Nonce		38
5	Russian (ru) Nonce		33
6	German (de) Nonce		30
7	Japanese (ja) ノンス		21
8	Ukrainian (uk) Криптографічний нонс		17
9	Chinese (zh) Nonce		17
10	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری نانس		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الرقم الخاص
ca	Catalan Nonce (criptografia)
cs	Czech Kryptografická nonce
de	German Nonce
en	English Cryptographic nonce
es	Spanish Nonce
fa	Persian رمزنگاری نانس
fr	French Nonce (cryptographie)
it	Italian Nonce
ja	Japanese ノンス
pt	Portuguese Nonce
ru	Russian Nonce
uk	Ukrainian Криптографічний нонс
zh	Chinese Nonce
zhminnan	Min Nan Nonce

Best Rank

English: #22008 10.2017

Global: #39568 12.2017

Best Rank

English: #15602 03.2017

Global: #44016 03.2017

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