Stream cipher

Stream cipher - symmetric key cipher where plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream. Article "Stream cipher" in English Wikipedia has 37.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 17 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Stream cipher" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Stream cipher", its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 524 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 686 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1993 in April 2002
• Global: #2563 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #62175 in October 2014
• Global: #57197 in December 2013

There are 23 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	Turkish (tr) Dizi şifresi		42.4518
2	Russian (ru) Потоковый шифр		41.234
3	Simple English (simple) Stream cipher		37.851
4	English (en) Stream cipher		37.2985
5	Hebrew (he) צופן זרם		36.2019
6	Spanish (es) Cifrado de flujo		28.7179
7	Norwegian (no) Flytchiffer		22.4864
8	Chinese (zh) 流密码		20.5476
9	Catalan (ca) Xifratge de flux		16.4821
10	German (de) Stromverschlüsselung		16.2788

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Stream cipher" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stream cipher		1 877 812
2	Russian (ru) Потоковый шифр		311 043
3	German (de) Stromverschlüsselung		236 957
4	Japanese (ja) ストリーム暗号		205 998
5	French (fr) Chiffrement de flux		104 395
6	Polish (pl) Szyfr strumieniowy		101 562
7	Spanish (es) Cifrado de flujo		91 602
8	Chinese (zh) 流密码		90 276
9	Korean (ko) 스트림 암호		54 124
10	Italian (it) Cifrario a flusso		45 659

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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 "Stream cipher" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stream cipher		5 116
2	Simple English (simple) Stream cipher		617
3	Russian (ru) Потоковый шифр		503
4	Japanese (ja) ストリーム暗号		363
5	German (de) Stromverschlüsselung		304
6	Chinese (zh) 流密码		262
7	Spanish (es) Cifrado de flujo		189
8	French (fr) Chiffrement de flux		180
9	Polish (pl) Szyfr strumieniowy		135
10	Czech (cs) Proudová šifra		132

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stream cipher		133
2	German (de) Stromverschlüsselung		64
3	Russian (ru) Потоковый шифр		47
4	Hebrew (he) צופן זרם		38
5	French (fr) Chiffrement de flux		36
6	Japanese (ja) ストリーム暗号		23
7	Italian (it) Cifrario a flusso		20
8	Dutch (nl) Stroomvercijfering		18
9	Polish (pl) Szyfr strumieniowy		18
10	Spanish (es) Cifrado de flujo		15

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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 "Stream cipher" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stream cipher		2
2	Arabic (ar) معمي التدفق		0
3	Catalan (ca) Xifratge de flux		0
4	Czech (cs) Proudová šifra		0
5	German (de) Stromverschlüsselung		0
6	Greek (el) Κρυπτογραφικοί Αλγόριθμοι Ροής		0
7	Spanish (es) Cifrado de flujo		0
8	Persian (fa) رمز دنباله‌ای		0
9	French (fr) Chiffrement de flux		0
10	Hebrew (he) צופן זרם		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 "Stream cipher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Stream cipher		686
2	Russian (ru) Потоковый шифр		218
3	Hebrew (he) צופן זרם		213
4	Chinese (zh) 流密码		160
5	Japanese (ja) ストリーム暗号		152
6	Ukrainian (uk) Потоковий шифр		91
7	German (de) Stromverschlüsselung		81
8	French (fr) Chiffrement de flux		79
9	Korean (ko) 스트림 암호		73
10	Italian (it) Cifrario a flusso		72

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معمي التدفق
ca	Catalan Xifratge de flux
cs	Czech Proudová šifra
de	German Stromverschlüsselung
el	Greek Κρυπτογραφικοί Αλγόριθμοι Ροής
en	English Stream cipher
es	Spanish Cifrado de flujo
fa	Persian رمز دنباله‌ای
fr	French Chiffrement de flux
he	Hebrew צופן זרם
id	Indonesian Penyandian aliran
it	Italian Cifrario a flusso
ja	Japanese ストリーム暗号
ko	Korean 스트림 암호
nl	Dutch Stroomvercijfering
no	Norwegian Flytchiffer
pl	Polish Szyfr strumieniowy
pt	Portuguese Cifra de fluxo
ru	Russian Потоковый шифр
simple	Simple English Stream cipher
tr	Turkish Dizi şifresi
uk	Ukrainian Потоковий шифр
zh	Chinese 流密码

Best Rank

English: #62175 10.2014

Global: #57197 12.2013

Best Rank

English: #1993 04.2002

Global: #2563 04.2002

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