Sponge function

Sponge function - class of algorithms with finite internal state that take an input bit stream of any length and produce an output bit stream of any desired length that can be used to model or implement many cryptographic primitives. Article "Sponge function" in English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Sponge function", its content was written by 31 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 132 times in English Wikipedia and cited 460 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #50376 in October 2012
• Global: #127373 in November 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #387884 in February 2017
• Global: #551365 in April 2018

There are 9 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	Portuguese (pt) Função esponja		31.538
2	English (en) Sponge function		29.3467
3	Ukrainian (uk) Функція губки		28.3366
4	Hebrew (he) פונקציית ספוג		24.0554
5	Serbian (sr) Сунђер конструкција		20.2685
6	Chinese (zh) 海綿函數		16.7752
7	Italian (it) Funzione spugna		14.3988
8	Russian (ru) Функция губки		10.5197
9	French (fr) Fonction éponge		5.7958

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sponge function" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sponge function		218 403
2	Russian (ru) Функция губки		25 728
3	French (fr) Fonction éponge		17 210
4	Chinese (zh) 海綿函數		14 107
5	Portuguese (pt) Função esponja		4 792
6	Italian (it) Funzione spugna		3 713
7	Hebrew (he) פונקציית ספוג		2 504
8	Ukrainian (uk) Функція губки		1 006
9	Serbian (sr) Сунђер конструкција		452

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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 "Sponge function" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sponge function		1 653
2	Russian (ru) Функция губки		83
3	Chinese (zh) 海綿函數		53
4	French (fr) Fonction éponge		51
5	Italian (it) Funzione spugna		21
6	Portuguese (pt) Função esponja		12
7	Hebrew (he) פונקציית ספוג		10
8	Ukrainian (uk) Функція губки		7
9	Serbian (sr) Сунђер конструкција		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sponge function		31
2	Russian (ru) Функция губки		24
3	French (fr) Fonction éponge		15
4	Italian (it) Funzione spugna		14
5	Chinese (zh) 海綿函數		9
6	Ukrainian (uk) Функція губки		7
7	Portuguese (pt) Função esponja		5
8	Hebrew (he) פונקציית ספוג		4
9	Serbian (sr) Сунђер конструкција		3

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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 "Sponge function" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sponge function		0
2	French (fr) Fonction éponge		0
3	Hebrew (he) פונקציית ספוג		0
4	Italian (it) Funzione spugna		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Função esponja		0
6	Russian (ru) Функция губки		0
7	Serbian (sr) Сунђер конструкција		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Функція губки		0
9	Chinese (zh) 海綿函數		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 "Sponge function" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Hebrew (he) פונקציית ספוג		199
2	English (en) Sponge function		132
3	French (fr) Fonction éponge		58
4	Ukrainian (uk) Функція губки		52
5	Russian (ru) Функция губки		9
6	Italian (it) Funzione spugna		4
7	Portuguese (pt) Função esponja		2
8	Serbian (sr) Сунђер конструкција		2
9	Chinese (zh) 海綿函數		2

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#	Language	Value
en	English Sponge function
fr	French Fonction éponge
he	Hebrew פונקציית ספוג
it	Italian Funzione spugna
pt	Portuguese Função esponja
ru	Russian Функция губки
sr	Serbian Сунђер конструкција
uk	Ukrainian Функція губки
zh	Chinese 海綿函數

Best Rank

English: #387884 02.2017

Global: #551365 04.2018

Best Rank

English: #50376 10.2012

Global: #127373 11.2013

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