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Downgrade attack

Quality:

Downgrade attack - cryptographic attack that forces the use of weaker or no encryption. Article “Downgrade attack” in English Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.22 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 “Downgrade attack”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 83 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in English Wikipedia and cited 55 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #52406 in November 2021
  • Global: #109192 in November 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #97235 in May 2019
  • Global: #180086 in May 2019

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
1German (de)
Downgrade-Angriff
26.799
2English (en)
Downgrade attack
23.1631
3French (fr)
Attaque par repli
21.0497
4Turkish (tr)
İndirgeme saldırısı
19.0669
5Polish (pl)
Atak downgrade
15.1251
6Ukrainian (uk)
Downgrade attack
9.9158
7Chinese (zh)
降级攻击
8.6103
8Vietnamese (vi)
Tấn công hạ cấp
7.1773
9Korean (ko)
다운그레이드 공격
2.6257
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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 "Downgrade attack" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Downgrade attack
477 346
2Chinese (zh)
降级攻击
10 044
3French (fr)
Attaque par repli
6 177
4Polish (pl)
Atak downgrade
3 565
5Vietnamese (vi)
Tấn công hạ cấp
1 690
6Korean (ko)
다운그레이드 공격
1 422
7Ukrainian (uk)
Downgrade attack
1 315
8Turkish (tr)
İndirgeme saldırısı
1 066
9German (de)
Downgrade-Angriff
589
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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 "Downgrade attack" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Downgrade attack
1 727
2German (de)
Downgrade-Angriff
73
3Chinese (zh)
降级攻击
61
4French (fr)
Attaque par repli
42
5Korean (ko)
다운그레이드 공격
26
6Turkish (tr)
İndirgeme saldırısı
16
7Polish (pl)
Atak downgrade
15
8Vietnamese (vi)
Tấn công hạ cấp
12
9Ukrainian (uk)
Downgrade attack
7
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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 "Downgrade attack" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Downgrade attack
43
2Polish (pl)
Atak downgrade
9
3Korean (ko)
다운그레이드 공격
8
4French (fr)
Attaque par repli
7
5Chinese (zh)
降级攻击
5
6German (de)
Downgrade-Angriff
3
7Turkish (tr)
İndirgeme saldırısı
3
8Vietnamese (vi)
Tấn công hạ cấp
3
9Ukrainian (uk)
Downgrade attack
2
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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 "Downgrade attack" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Polish (pl)
Atak downgrade
1
2German (de)
Downgrade-Angriff
0
3English (en)
Downgrade attack
0
4French (fr)
Attaque par repli
0
5Korean (ko)
다운그레이드 공격
0
6Turkish (tr)
İndirgeme saldırısı
0
7Ukrainian (uk)
Downgrade attack
0
8Vietnamese (vi)
Tấn công hạ cấp
0
9Chinese (zh)
降级攻击
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 "Downgrade attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Downgrade attack
27
2French (fr)
Attaque par repli
9
3German (de)
Downgrade-Angriff
7
4Korean (ko)
다운그레이드 공격
4
5Ukrainian (uk)
Downgrade attack
3
6Chinese (zh)
降级攻击
3
7Polish (pl)
Atak downgrade
1
8Turkish (tr)
İndirgeme saldırısı
1
9Vietnamese (vi)
Tấn công hạ cấp
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Downgrade-Angriff
enEnglish
Downgrade attack
frFrench
Attaque par repli
koKorean
다운그레이드 공격
plPolish
Atak downgrade
trTurkish
İndirgeme saldırısı
ukUkrainian
Downgrade attack
viVietnamese
Tấn công hạ cấp
zhChinese
降级攻击

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#97235
05.2019
Global:
#180086
05.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#52406
11.2021
Global:
#109192
11.2021

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Downgrade attack from Wikipedia articles about HTTP Strict Transport Security, Stingray phone tracker, Backward compatibility, Transport Layer Security and Aircrack-ng. Whereas reading the article about Downgrade attack people most often go to Wikipedia articles on POODLE, Moxie Marlinspike, Side-channel attack, Cryptographic protocol and STARTTLS.

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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