Encryption

Quality:

Encryption - process of hiding information into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Article “Encryption” in English Wikipedia has 60.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 52 references and 17 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Encryption” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Encryption”, its content was written by 635 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2065 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2896 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11236 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #121 in January 2001
• Global: #121 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5672 in April 2016
• Global: #1471 in July 2016

There are 45 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kryptering		67.841
2	English (en) Encryption		60.5656
3	Hebrew (he) הצפנה		55.9257
4	Greek (el) Κρυπτογράφηση		52.6408
5	Indonesian (id) Enkripsi		43.5074
6	Russian (ru) Шифрование		43.4199
7	Armenian (hy) Ծածկագրում		42.187
8	Croatian (hr) Šifra		38.1606
9	German (de) Verschlüsselung		37.4738
10	Chinese (zh) 加密		36.0182

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Encryption		9 800 952
2	German (de) Verschlüsselung		1 771 913
3	French (fr) Chiffrement		1 465 518
4	Japanese (ja) 暗号		1 347 697
5	Russian (ru) Шифрование		1 274 661
6	Spanish (es) Cifrado (criptografía)		915 026
7	Indonesian (id) Enkripsi		561 092
8	Dutch (nl) Encryptie		353 343
9	Swedish (sv) Kryptering		289 960
10	Chinese (zh) 加密		275 227

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) Encryption		19 008
2	Japanese (ja) 暗号		2 996
3	Russian (ru) Шифрование		2 359
4	French (fr) Chiffrement		2 203
5	German (de) Verschlüsselung		2 185
6	Spanish (es) Cifrado (criptografía)		1 548
7	Simple English (simple) Encryption		1 068
8	Chinese (zh) 加密		805
9	Indonesian (id) Enkripsi		614
10	Hebrew (he) הצפנה		351

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Encryption		635
2	German (de) Verschlüsselung		273
3	French (fr) Chiffrement		176
4	Japanese (ja) 暗号		101
5	Russian (ru) Шифрование		90
6	Swedish (sv) Kryptering		73
7	Dutch (nl) Encryptie		70
8	Finnish (fi) Salaus		66
9	Spanish (es) Cifrado (criptografía)		55
10	Chinese (zh) 加密		38

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	English (en) Encryption		8
2	German (de) Verschlüsselung		2
3	Romanian (ro) Criptare		2
4	Arabic (ar) تعمية (إجرائية)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şifrləmə		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Шифроване		0
7	Catalan (ca) Xifratge		0
8	Danish (da) Kryptering		0
9	Greek (el) Κρυπτογράφηση		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ĉifrado		0

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

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