Block cipher

Quality:

Block cipher - cipher that works on fixed-size blocks of bits. Article “Block cipher” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Block cipher”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 779 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2758 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #437 in July 2012
• Global: #2176 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2349 in January 2013
• Global: #56618 in April 2015

There are 30 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	English (en) Block cipher		70.1365
2	Hebrew (he) צופן בלוקים		64.0436
3	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		58.0989
4	Indonesian (id) Penyandian blok		56.5272
5	Slovak (sk) Bloková šifra		56.396
6	Portuguese (pt) Cifra de bloco		49.5261
7	Turkish (tr) Blok şifreleme		47.1024
8	Arabic (ar) معمي الفدر		42.7951
9	Swedish (sv) Blockchiffer		40.9657
10	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری قالبی		38.2769

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Block cipher		2 195 675
2	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		376 602
3	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		354 190
4	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		261 292
5	Spanish (es) Cifrado por bloques		201 361
6	Polish (pl) Szyfr blokowy		133 682
7	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		104 439
8	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		102 089
9	Chinese (zh) 分组密码		98 930
10	Korean (ko) 블록 암호		55 768

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Block cipher		5 460
2	Simple English (simple) Block cipher		752
3	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		698
4	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		450
5	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		371
6	Chinese (zh) 分组密码		282
7	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		185
8	Spanish (es) Cifrado por bloques		178
9	Polish (pl) Szyfr blokowy		178
10	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		149

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Block cipher		193
2	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		86
3	Russian (ru) Блочный шифр		55
4	French (fr) Chiffrement par bloc		50
5	Italian (it) Cifratura a blocchi		48
6	Hebrew (he) צופן בלוקים		44
7	Dutch (nl) Blokvercijfering		39
8	Turkish (tr) Blok şifreleme		27
9	Japanese (ja) ブロック暗号		26
10	Polish (pl) Szyfr blokowy		25

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) צופן בלוקים		1
2	Arabic (ar) معمي الفدر		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Bloklu şifr		0
4	Catalan (ca) Xifratge per blocs		0
5	Czech (cs) Bloková šifra		0
6	German (de) Blockverschlüsselung		0
7	Greek (el) Κρυπτογραφικοί Αλγόριθμοι Δέσμης		0
8	English (en) Block cipher		0
9	Spanish (es) Cifrado por bloques		0
10	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری قالبی		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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