History of cryptography

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History of cryptography

Quality:

History of cryptography - aspect of history. Article "History of cryptography" in English Wikipedia has 64.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 52 references and 18 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "History of cryptography" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "History of cryptography", its content was written by 237 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1025 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 621 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1507 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3151 in October 2004
  • Global: #5376 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #81515 in November 2013
  • Global: #43037 in March 2010

There are 21 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
1Hungarian (hu)
A kriptográfia története
100
2Russian (ru)
История криптографии
97.9129
3English (en)
History of cryptography
64.6889
4German (de)
Geschichte der Kryptographie
62.6128
5French (fr)
Histoire de la cryptologie
47.8625
6Catalan (ca)
Història de la criptografia
42.7975
7Armenian (hy)
Կրիպտոգրաֆիայի պատմություն
42.1343
8Chinese (zh)
密码学历史
42.0187
9Portuguese (pt)
História da criptografia
40.0224
10Czech (cs)
Historie kryptografie
33.5842
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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 "History of cryptography" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of cryptography
1 308 019
2Russian (ru)
История криптографии
585 341
3French (fr)
Histoire de la cryptologie
352 854
4German (de)
Geschichte der Kryptographie
326 640
5Spanish (es)
Historia de la criptografía
298 890
6Japanese (ja)
暗号史
272 149
7Portuguese (pt)
História da criptografia
125 149
8Italian (it)
Storia della crittografia
119 033
9Hungarian (hu)
A kriptográfia története
79 506
10Vietnamese (vi)
Lịch sử mật mã học
41 032
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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 "History of cryptography" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of cryptography
3 688
2Russian (ru)
История криптографии
1 162
3Japanese (ja)
暗号史
833
4German (de)
Geschichte der Kryptographie
778
5French (fr)
Histoire de la cryptologie
769
6Italian (it)
Storia della crittografia
408
7Spanish (es)
Historia de la criptografía
369
8Portuguese (pt)
História da criptografia
309
9Hungarian (hu)
A kriptográfia története
226
10Chinese (zh)
密码学历史
146
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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 "History of cryptography" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History of cryptography
237
2French (fr)
Histoire de la cryptologie
198
3German (de)
Geschichte der Kryptographie
104
4Russian (ru)
История криптографии
98
5Italian (it)
Storia della crittografia
70
6Hungarian (hu)
A kriptográfia története
65
7Japanese (ja)
暗号史
37
8Vietnamese (vi)
Lịch sử mật mã học
36
9Spanish (es)
Historia de la criptografía
34
10Portuguese (pt)
História da criptografia
29
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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 "History of cryptography" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Geschichte der Kryptographie
2
2English (en)
History of cryptography
2
3Russian (ru)
История криптографии
1
4Arabic (ar)
تاريخ التعمية
0
5Catalan (ca)
Història de la criptografia
0
6Czech (cs)
Historie kryptografie
0
7Spanish (es)
Historia de la criptografía
0
8Basque (eu)
Kriptografiaren historia
0
9Persian (fa)
تاریخ رمزنگاری
0
10French (fr)
Histoire de la cryptologie
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 "History of cryptography" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
History of cryptography
621
2French (fr)
Histoire de la cryptologie
231
3Japanese (ja)
暗号史
153
4Chinese (zh)
密码学历史
127
5Ukrainian (uk)
Історія криптографії
70
6Arabic (ar)
تاريخ التعمية
54
7German (de)
Geschichte der Kryptographie
49
8Russian (ru)
История криптографии
47
9Portuguese (pt)
História da criptografia
43
10Armenian (hy)
Կրիպտոգրաֆիայի պատմություն
19
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تاريخ التعمية
caCatalan
Història de la criptografia
csCzech
Historie kryptografie
deGerman
Geschichte der Kryptographie
enEnglish
History of cryptography
esSpanish
Historia de la criptografía
euBasque
Kriptografiaren historia
faPersian
تاریخ رمزنگاری
frFrench
Histoire de la cryptologie
huHungarian
A kriptográfia története
hyArmenian
Կրիպտոգրաֆիայի պատմություն
itItalian
Storia della crittografia
jaJapanese
暗号史
kkKazakh
Криптография тарихы
noNorwegian
Kryptografiens historie
ptPortuguese
História da criptografia
roRomanian
Istoria criptologiei
ruRussian
История криптографии
ukUkrainian
Історія криптографії
viVietnamese
Lịch sử mật mã học
zhChinese
密码学历史

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#81515
11.2013
Global:
#43037
03.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3151
10.2004
Global:
#5376
10.2004

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on History of cryptography from Wikipedia articles about Cryptography, Enigma, Encryption, Alchemy and Caesar cipher. Whereas reading the article about History of cryptography people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Enigma, Caesar cipher, Atbash, Scytale and Cryptography.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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