Preimage attack

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Preimage attack

Quality:

Preimage attack - attack model against cryptographic hash functions. Article “Preimage attack” in English Wikipedia has 20.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Preimage attack”, its content was written by 71 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 157 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 155 times in English Wikipedia and cited 444 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #10802 in September 2004
  • Global: #39338 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #156603 in February 2017
  • Global: #235294 in February 2017

There are 14 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
1Chinese (zh)
原像攻击
26.7156
2Swedish (sv)
Definitionsmängdsattack
23.1966
3Catalan (ca)
Atac preimatge
22.7204
4English (en)
Preimage attack
20.6963
5Spanish (es)
Ataque de preimage
20.6623
6Russian (ru)
Атака нахождения прообраза
20.2409
7Korean (ko)
역상 공격
19.8632
8Portuguese (pt)
Ataque da preimagem
19.0851
9French (fr)
Attaque de préimage
15.6587
10Japanese (ja)
原像攻撃
12.1467
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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 "Preimage attack" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preimage attack
707 572
2German (de)
Preimage-Angriff
63 814
3Japanese (ja)
原像攻撃
49 477
4Russian (ru)
Атака нахождения прообраза
24 517
5Chinese (zh)
原像攻击
19 841
6Korean (ko)
역상 공격
14 297
7Polish (pl)
Preimage resistance
14 090
8French (fr)
Attaque de préimage
13 265
9Portuguese (pt)
Ataque da preimagem
4 027
10Ukrainian (uk)
Атака знаходження першовзору
2 626
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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 "Preimage attack" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preimage attack
2 741
2German (de)
Preimage-Angriff
146
3Japanese (ja)
原像攻撃
125
4Chinese (zh)
原像攻击
120
5French (fr)
Attaque de préimage
68
6Russian (ru)
Атака нахождения прообраза
52
7Portuguese (pt)
Ataque da preimagem
35
8Spanish (es)
Ataque de preimage
32
9Korean (ko)
역상 공격
29
10Polish (pl)
Preimage resistance
22
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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 "Preimage attack" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Preimage attack
71
2German (de)
Preimage-Angriff
32
3Russian (ru)
Атака нахождения прообраза
11
4Japanese (ja)
原像攻撃
7
5Polish (pl)
Preimage resistance
7
6Chinese (zh)
原像攻击
6
7Portuguese (pt)
Ataque da preimagem
5
8French (fr)
Attaque de préimage
4
9Ukrainian (uk)
Атака знаходження першовзору
4
10Korean (ko)
역상 공격
3
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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 "Preimage attack" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Atac preimatge
0
2Czech (cs)
Útok nalezením vzoru
0
3German (de)
Preimage-Angriff
0
4English (en)
Preimage attack
0
5Spanish (es)
Ataque de preimage
0
6French (fr)
Attaque de préimage
0
7Japanese (ja)
原像攻撃
0
8Korean (ko)
역상 공격
0
9Polish (pl)
Preimage resistance
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Ataque da preimagem
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 "Preimage attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Preimage attack
155
2French (fr)
Attaque de préimage
62
3Ukrainian (uk)
Атака знаходження першовзору
54
4Chinese (zh)
原像攻击
38
5Japanese (ja)
原像攻撃
37
6Korean (ko)
역상 공격
31
7Russian (ru)
Атака нахождения прообраза
21
8German (de)
Preimage-Angriff
12
9Portuguese (pt)
Ataque da preimagem
12
10Catalan (ca)
Atac preimatge
8
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Atac preimatge
csCzech
Útok nalezením vzoru
deGerman
Preimage-Angriff
enEnglish
Preimage attack
esSpanish
Ataque de preimage
frFrench
Attaque de préimage
jaJapanese
原像攻撃
koKorean
역상 공격
plPolish
Preimage resistance
ptPortuguese
Ataque da preimagem
ruRussian
Атака нахождения прообраза
svSwedish
Definitionsmängdsattack
ukUkrainian
Атака знаходження першовзору
zhChinese
原像攻击

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#156603
02.2017
Global:
#235294
02.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#10802
09.2004
Global:
#39338
09.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Preimage attack from Wikipedia articles about SHA-2, MD5, Cryptographic hash function, Collision attack and Rainbow table. Whereas reading the article about Preimage attack people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Birthday attack, Image, Collision resistance, Cryptographic hash function and Collision attack.

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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