One-time pad

One-time pad - encryption technique utilizing a one-time pre-shared key at least as long as the encrypted message. Article “One-time pad” in Finnish Wikipedia has 9.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.52 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “One-time pad”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 1347 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 1258 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #1637 in August 2017
• Global: #431 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #60852 in November 2018
• Global: #27345 in November 2012

There are 29 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, 2026 (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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Eingongslykel		64.7367
2	English (en) One-time pad		57.8887
3	Estonian (et) Ühekordne šifriplokk		37.7312
4	Persian (fa) پد یک‌بار مصرف		37.1254
5	German (de) One-Time-Pad		33.1624
6	Greek (el) Σημειωματάριο μιας χρήσης		32.1754
7	Catalan (ca) Bloc d'un sol ús		30.5039
8	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		27.7814
9	Arabic (ar) سجل المرة الواحدة		24.0134
10	Portuguese (pt) One-time pad		23.7566

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

The most popular language versions of the article "One-time pad" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) One-time pad		4 768 149
2	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		1 002 201
3	German (de) One-Time-Pad		765 576
4	French (fr) Masque jetable		310 742
5	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		277 734
6	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		264 949
7	Polish (pl) Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym		244 005
8	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		210 651
9	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		139 033
10	Chinese (zh) 一次性密碼本		116 031

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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 "One-time pad" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) One-time pad		12 018
2	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		1 916
3	German (de) One-Time-Pad		1 186
4	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		752
5	Polish (pl) Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym		456
6	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		415
7	French (fr) Masque jetable		393
8	Chinese (zh) 一次性密碼本		275
9	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		192
10	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		161

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

Language versions of the article "One-time pad" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) One-time pad		460
2	German (de) One-Time-Pad		210
3	French (fr) Masque jetable		91
4	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		84
5	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		67
6	Dutch (nl) One-time pad		57
7	Polish (pl) Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym		43
8	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		38
9	Hebrew (he) פנקס חד-פעמי		38
10	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		30

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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 "One-time pad" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سجل المرة الواحدة		2
2	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		2
3	Catalan (ca) Bloc d'un sol ús		1
4	English (en) One-time pad		1
5	Czech (cs) Vernamova šifra		0
6	Danish (da) One-time pad		0
7	German (de) One-Time-Pad		0
8	Greek (el) Σημειωματάριο μιας χρήσης		0
9	Spanish (es) Libreta de un solo uso		0
10	Estonian (et) Ühekordne šifriplokk		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 "One-time pad" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Hebrew (he) פנקס חד-פעמי		225
2	English (en) One-time pad		223
3	German (de) One-Time-Pad		95
4	Arabic (ar) سجل المرة الواحدة		86
5	Italian (it) Cifrario di Vernam		68
6	Chinese (zh) 一次性密碼本		60
7	French (fr) Masque jetable		55
8	Japanese (ja) ワンタイムパッド		50
9	Russian (ru) Шифр Вернама		49
10	Dutch (nl) One-time pad		45

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سجل المرة الواحدة
ca	Catalan Bloc d'un sol ús
cs	Czech Vernamova šifra
da	Danish One-time pad
de	German One-Time-Pad
el	Greek Σημειωματάριο μιας χρήσης
en	English One-time pad
es	Spanish Libreta de un solo uso
et	Estonian Ühekordne šifriplokk
fa	Persian پد یک‌بار مصرف
fi	Finnish One-time pad
fr	French Masque jetable
he	Hebrew פנקס חד-פעמי
hr	Croatian Jednokratni ključ
it	Italian Cifrario di Vernam
ja	Japanese ワンタイムパッド
ko	Korean 원 타임 패드
lt	Lithuanian Vienkartinis bloknotas
nl	Dutch One-time pad
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Eingongslykel
no	Norwegian Engangsnøkkel
pl	Polish Szyfr z kluczem jednorazowym
pt	Portuguese One-time pad
ru	Russian Шифр Вернама
simple	Simple English One-time pad
sv	Swedish Blankettchiffer
tr	Turkish Tek kullanımlık şifre
uk	Ukrainian Шифр Вернама
zh	Chinese 一次性密碼本

Best Rank

Finnish: #60852 11.2018

Global: #27345 11.2012

Best Rank

Finnish: #1637 08.2017

Global: #431 07.2002

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