Hardware random number generator

Hardware random number generator - device that generates random numbers from physical processes, rather than by means of an software algorithm. Article “Hardware random number generator” in English Wikipedia has 59.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 56 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.

Since the creation of article “Hardware random number generator”, its content was written by 278 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 493 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 126 times in English Wikipedia and cited 298 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #192 in December 2002
• Global: #720 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28452 in October 2020
• Global: #55501 in October 2020

There are 16 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	English (en) Hardware random number generator		59.6648
2	Turkish (tr) Gerçek rassal sayı üreteci		46.5665
3	Estonian (et) Riistvaraline juhuarvugeneraator		44.3365
4	Hebrew (he) מחולל מספרים אקראיים		37.2707
5	Russian (ru) Аппаратный генератор случайных чисел		32.3631
6	Persian (fa) تولیدکننده شماره تصادفی سخت‌افزار		31.1027
7	Ukrainian (uk) Апаратний генератор випадкових чисел		29.6226
8	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel		19.1287
9	Catalan (ca) Generador de nombres aleatoris per maquinari		18.7588
10	Italian (it) Generatore hardware di numeri casuali		18.0988

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hardware random number generator" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware random number generator		1 840 773
2	Russian (ru) Аппаратный генератор случайных чисел		260 175
3	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア乱数生成器		135 341
4	Italian (it) Generatore hardware di numeri casuali		68 132
5	Hebrew (he) מחולל מספרים אקראיים		42 218
6	Chinese (zh) 硬件随机数生成器		40 934
7	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel		19 941
8	Czech (cs) Hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel		18 951
9	Ukrainian (uk) Апаратний генератор випадкових чисел		16 435
10	Portuguese (pt) Gerador de número pseudoaleatório (hardware)		9 197

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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 "Hardware random number generator" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware random number generator		3 528
2	Russian (ru) Аппаратный генератор случайных чисел		480
3	Chinese (zh) 硬件随机数生成器		291
4	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア乱数生成器		248
5	Ukrainian (uk) Апаратний генератор випадкових чисел		109
6	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel		108
7	Italian (it) Generatore hardware di numeri casuali		64
8	Czech (cs) Hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel		51
9	Hebrew (he) מחולל מספרים אקראיים		42
10	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 난수 발생기		29

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hardware random number generator		278
2	Italian (it) Generatore hardware di numeri casuali		42
3	Hebrew (he) מחולל מספרים אקראיים		39
4	Russian (ru) Аппаратный генератор случайных чисел		37
5	Czech (cs) Hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel		15
6	Turkish (tr) Gerçek rassal sayı üreteci		15
7	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア乱数生成器		13
8	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel		12
9	Chinese (zh) 硬件随机数生成器		12
10	Estonian (et) Riistvaraline juhuarvugeneraator		8

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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 "Hardware random number generator" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) جهاز توليد أعداد عشوائية		1
2	Catalan (ca) Generador de nombres aleatoris per maquinari		0
3	Czech (cs) Hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel		0
4	English (en) Hardware random number generator		0
5	Estonian (et) Riistvaraline juhuarvugeneraator		0
6	Persian (fa) تولیدکننده شماره تصادفی سخت‌افزار		0
7	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel		0
8	Hebrew (he) מחולל מספרים אקראיים		0
9	Italian (it) Generatore hardware di numeri casuali		0
10	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア乱数生成器		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 "Hardware random number generator" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hardware random number generator		126
2	Chinese (zh) 硬件随机数生成器		25
3	Russian (ru) Аппаратный генератор случайных чисел		24
4	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア乱数生成器		16
5	Italian (it) Generatore hardware di numeri casuali		15
6	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 난수 발생기		15
7	Hebrew (he) מחולל מספרים אקראיים		14
8	Czech (cs) Hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel		12
9	Portuguese (pt) Gerador de número pseudoaleatório (hardware)		10
10	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جهاز توليد أعداد عشوائية
ca	Catalan Generador de nombres aleatoris per maquinari
cs	Czech Hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel
en	English Hardware random number generator
et	Estonian Riistvaraline juhuarvugeneraator
fa	Persian تولیدکننده شماره تصادفی سخت‌افزار
fr	French Générateur de nombres aléatoires matériel
he	Hebrew מחולל מספרים אקראיים
it	Italian Generatore hardware di numeri casuali
ja	Japanese ハードウェア乱数生成器
ko	Korean 하드웨어 난수 발생기
pt	Portuguese Gerador de número pseudoaleatório (hardware)
ru	Russian Аппаратный генератор случайных чисел
tr	Turkish Gerçek rassal sayı üreteci
uk	Ukrainian Апаратний генератор випадкових чисел
zh	Chinese 硬件随机数生成器

Best Rank

English: #28452 10.2020

Global: #55501 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #192 12.2002

Global: #720 12.2002

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