Salt (cryptography)

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Salt (cryptography)

Quality:

Salt - secret added to an input such as a password prior to being hashed with a cryptographic hash function and stored alongside the hashed output. Article "Salt (cryptography)" in English Wikipedia has 34.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Salt (cryptography)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Salt (cryptography)", its content was written by 225 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 189 times in English Wikipedia and cited 589 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6990 in May 2021
  • Global: #14948 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #11418 in June 2012
  • Global: #19810 in June 2012

There are 22 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
1English (en)
Salt (cryptography)
34.4954
2Estonian (et)
Sool (krüptograafia)
29.4584
3Russian (ru)
Соль (криптография)
28.2247
4Malay (ms)
Garam (kriptografi)
25.1501
5Ukrainian (uk)
Сіль (криптографія)
24.596
6German (de)
Salt (Kryptologie)
23.094
7Croatian (hr)
Sol (kriptografija)
18.0734
8Dutch (nl)
Salt (cryptografie)
17.7618
9French (fr)
Salage (cryptographie)
14.5151
10Japanese (ja)
ソルト (暗号)
13.3645
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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 "Salt (cryptography)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Salt (cryptography)
4 693 108
2German (de)
Salt (Kryptologie)
679 549
3Russian (ru)
Соль (криптография)
487 170
4French (fr)
Salage (cryptographie)
188 046
5Chinese (zh)
盐 (密码学)
170 420
6Spanish (es)
Sal (criptografía)
115 970
7Japanese (ja)
ソルト (暗号)
82 510
8Polish (pl)
Sól (kryptografia)
80 701
9Dutch (nl)
Salt (cryptografie)
42 478
10Swedish (sv)
Salt (kryptografi)
32 476
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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 "Salt (cryptography)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Salt (cryptography)
11 788
2Russian (ru)
Соль (криптография)
1 376
3German (de)
Salt (Kryptologie)
879
4Chinese (zh)
盐 (密码学)
734
5French (fr)
Salage (cryptographie)
505
6Japanese (ja)
ソルト (暗号)
427
7Italian (it)
Salt (crittografia)
154
8Polish (pl)
Sól (kryptografia)
139
9Korean (ko)
솔트 (암호학)
98
10Spanish (es)
Sal (criptografía)
97
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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 "Salt (cryptography)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Salt (cryptography)
225
2German (de)
Salt (Kryptologie)
110
3French (fr)
Salage (cryptographie)
48
4Russian (ru)
Соль (криптография)
32
5Dutch (nl)
Salt (cryptografie)
19
6Chinese (zh)
盐 (密码学)
18
7Polish (pl)
Sól (kryptografia)
14
8Swedish (sv)
Salt (kryptografi)
14
9Czech (cs)
Sůl (kryptografie)
13
10Spanish (es)
Sal (criptografía)
11
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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 "Salt (cryptography)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Salt (Kryptologie)
2
2English (en)
Salt (cryptography)
2
3Chinese (zh)
盐 (密码学)
2
4Bulgarian (bg)
Сол (криптография)
0
5Czech (cs)
Sůl (kryptografie)
0
6Spanish (es)
Sal (criptografía)
0
7Estonian (et)
Sool (krüptograafia)
0
8Basque (eu)
Gatz (kriptografia)
0
9French (fr)
Salage (cryptographie)
0
10Croatian (hr)
Sol (kriptografija)
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 "Salt (cryptography)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Salt (cryptography)
189
2Ukrainian (uk)
Сіль (криптографія)
63
3Chinese (zh)
盐 (密码学)
50
4Russian (ru)
Соль (криптография)
43
5German (de)
Salt (Kryptologie)
42
6Japanese (ja)
ソルト (暗号)
40
7Korean (ko)
솔트 (암호학)
35
8French (fr)
Salage (cryptographie)
27
9Czech (cs)
Sůl (kryptografie)
20
10Spanish (es)
Sal (criptografía)
20
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
bgBulgarian
Сол (криптография)
csCzech
Sůl (kryptografie)
deGerman
Salt (Kryptologie)
enEnglish
Salt (cryptography)
esSpanish
Sal (criptografía)
etEstonian
Sool (krüptograafia)
euBasque
Gatz (kriptografia)
frFrench
Salage (cryptographie)
hrCroatian
Sol (kriptografija)
idIndonesian
Salt (kriptografi)
itItalian
Salt (crittografia)
jaJapanese
ソルト (暗号)
koKorean
솔트 (암호학)
msMalay
Garam (kriptografi)
nlDutch
Salt (cryptografie)
plPolish
Sól (kryptografia)
ptPortuguese
Sal (criptografia)
ruRussian
Соль (криптография)
svSwedish
Salt (kryptografi)
ukUkrainian
Сіль (криптографія)
zhChinese
盐 (密码学)
zhminnanMin Nan
Salt

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#11418
06.2012
Global:
#19810
06.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6990
05.2021
Global:
#14948
06.2012

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Salt from Wikipedia articles about Rainbow table, Pepper, Nonce, QAnon and Bcrypt. Whereas reading the article about Salt people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rainbow table, Nonce, Passwd, Pepper and Cryptographic hash function.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zhminnan: Salt

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