Cryptography

Quality:

Cryptography - practice and study of secure communication techniques. Article “Cryptography” in English Wikipedia has 81.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 126 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.02 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8859^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 5300^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6652^nd most popular in all topics.

The 3288^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Cryptography” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cryptography”, its content was written by 1111 registered users of English Wikipedia (5300^th place) and edited by 4371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3288^th place).

The article is cited 3286 times in English Wikipedia (9513^th place) and cited 18359 times in all languages (9458^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #76 in December 2001
• Global: #81 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1466 in December 2017
• Global: #1805 in December 2017

There are 53 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	Portuguese (pt) Criptografia		83.9704
2	Arabic (ar) تعمية (تخصص)		83.6423
3	Indonesian (id) Kriptografi		83.2915
4	English (en) Cryptography		81.2155
5	Hindi (hi) बीज-लेखन		81.0122
6	Armenian (hy) Գաղտնագրություն		69.754
7	Hebrew (he) קריפטוגרפיה		57.9663
8	Greek (el) Κρυπτογραφία		53.0719
9	Ukrainian (uk) Криптографія		47.8596
10	Chinese (zh) 密码学		45.6954

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cryptography		15 593 488
2	Spanish (es) Criptografía		3 211 910
3	Russian (ru) Криптография		3 184 327
4	German (de) Kryptographie		2 070 009
5	Portuguese (pt) Criptografia		2 069 448
6	French (fr) Cryptographie		1 588 940
7	Italian (it) Crittografia		1 585 393
8	Chinese (zh) 密码学		845 777
9	Japanese (ja) 暗号理論		613 935
10	Indonesian (id) Kriptografi		576 652

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cryptography		22 527
2	Russian (ru) Криптография		3 233
3	German (de) Kryptographie		2 113
4	French (fr) Cryptographie		2 018
5	Spanish (es) Criptografía		1 911
6	Chinese (zh) 密码学		1 469
7	Italian (it) Crittografia		1 452
8	Portuguese (pt) Criptografia		1 060
9	Japanese (ja) 暗号理論		878
10	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری		648

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cryptography		1 111
2	German (de) Kryptographie		399
3	Spanish (es) Criptografía		223
4	French (fr) Cryptographie		221
5	Italian (it) Crittografia		217
6	Russian (ru) Криптография		168
7	Portuguese (pt) Criptografia		165
8	Hebrew (he) קריפטוגרפיה		164
9	Chinese (zh) 密码学		135
10	Dutch (nl) Cryptografie		133

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kryptographie		2
2	English (en) Cryptography		2
3	Estonian (et) Krüptograafia		2
4	Armenian (hy) Գաղտնագրություն		2
5	Arabic (ar) تعمية (تخصص)		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Криптография		1
7	Catalan (ca) Criptografia		1
8	Greek (el) Κρυπτογραφία		1
9	Basque (eu) Kriptografia		1
10	Hindi (hi) बीज-लेखन		1

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

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