Cryptographic hash function

Quality:

Cryptographic hash function - special class of hash function that has certain properties which make it suitable for use in cryptography. Article “Cryptographic hash function” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

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 “Cryptographic hash function”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1049 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3933 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #537 in September 2016
• Global: #6801 in August 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #377 in April 2018
• Global: #12601 in December 2017

There are 27 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	English (en) Cryptographic hash function		58.993
2	German (de) Kryptographische Hashfunktion		54.1999
3	Hebrew (he) פונקציית גיבוב קריפטוגרפית		39.7784
4	Russian (ru) Криптографическая хеш-функция		35.246
5	Portuguese (pt) Função hash criptográfica		34.8459
6	Persian (fa) تابع هش رمزنگاری		33.7927
7	Turkish (tr) Kriptografik özet fonksiyonu		33.1079
8	Italian (it) Funzione crittografica di hash		33.0947
9	Slovak (sk) Kryptografická hašovacia funkcia		31.9009
10	Finnish (fi) Kryptografinen tiiviste		26.9603

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cryptographic hash function		7 776 792
2	German (de) Kryptographische Hashfunktion		856 013
3	Russian (ru) Криптографическая хеш-функция		448 596
4	Japanese (ja) 暗号学的ハッシュ関数		378 147
5	Italian (it) Funzione crittografica di hash		270 398
6	Simple English (simple) Cryptographic hash function		222 982
7	French (fr) Fonction de hachage cryptographique		218 263
8	Spanish (es) Función hash criptográfica		179 017
9	Portuguese (pt) Função hash criptográfica		125 269
10	Korean (ko) 암호화 해시 함수		122 610

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) Cryptographic hash function		10 891
2	German (de) Kryptographische Hashfunktion		925
3	Japanese (ja) 暗号学的ハッシュ関数		636
4	French (fr) Fonction de hachage cryptographique		526
5	Russian (ru) Криптографическая хеш-функция		411
6	Chinese (zh) 密碼雜湊函數		296
7	Simple English (simple) Cryptographic hash function		273
8	Italian (it) Funzione crittografica di hash		241
9	Spanish (es) Función hash criptográfica		205
10	Portuguese (pt) Função hash criptográfica		162

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cryptographic hash function		452
2	German (de) Kryptographische Hashfunktion		115
3	Italian (it) Funzione crittografica di hash		60
4	Russian (ru) Криптографическая хеш-функция		40
5	Persian (fa) تابع هش رمزنگاری		33
6	Japanese (ja) 暗号学的ハッシュ関数		31
7	French (fr) Fonction de hachage cryptographique		30
8	Hebrew (he) פונקציית גיבוב קריפטוגרפית		28
9	Finnish (fi) Kryptografinen tiiviste		24
10	Hungarian (hu) Kriptográfiai hashfüggvény		24

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	English (en) Cryptographic hash function		3
2	Arabic (ar) دالة تلبيد تعموية		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Função hash criptográfica		1
4	Catalan (ca) Funció hash criptogràfica		0
5	Czech (cs) Kryptografická hašovací funkce		0
6	German (de) Kryptographische Hashfunktion		0
7	Greek (el) Κρυπτογραφική Συνάρτηση Κατατεμαχισμού		0
8	Spanish (es) Función hash criptográfica		0
9	Persian (fa) تابع هش رمزنگاری		0
10	Finnish (fi) Kryptografinen tiiviste		0

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

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