Differential cryptanalysis

Quality:

Differential cryptanalysis - general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers, but also to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. Article “Differential cryptanalysis” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Differential cryptanalysis”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 332 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1034 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2137 in November 2008
• Global: #2752 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2030 in March 2022
• Global: #91898 in May 2009

There are 18 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	Hebrew (he) קריפטואנליזה דיפרנציאלית		31.1668
2	German (de) Differenzielle Kryptoanalyse		25.5815
3	Chinese (zh) 差分密码分析		22.1548
4	English (en) Differential cryptanalysis		20.7088
5	Catalan (ca) Criptoanàlisi diferencial		18.9382
6	Russian (ru) Дифференциальный криптоанализ		17.815
7	Ukrainian (uk) Диференціальний криптоаналіз		16.2512
8	Italian (it) Crittanalisi differenziale		12.2484
9	Spanish (es) Criptoanálisis diferencial		12.163
10	Korean (ko) 차분 공격		12.1454

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Differential cryptanalysis		619 222
2	Russian (ru) Дифференциальный криптоанализ		83 721
3	German (de) Differenzielle Kryptoanalyse		66 320
4	Japanese (ja) 差分解読法		64 265
5	French (fr) Cryptanalyse différentielle		55 305
6	Polish (pl) Kryptoanaliza różnicowa		48 257
7	Italian (it) Crittanalisi differenziale		21 287
8	Korean (ko) 차분 공격		17 738
9	Chinese (zh) 差分密码分析		17 603
10	Hebrew (he) קריפטואנליזה דיפרנציאלית		13 190

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) Differential cryptanalysis		1 050
2	Chinese (zh) 差分密码分析		130
3	Japanese (ja) 差分解読法		92
4	German (de) Differenzielle Kryptoanalyse		86
5	Russian (ru) Дифференциальный криптоанализ		78
6	French (fr) Cryptanalyse différentielle		76
7	Italian (it) Crittanalisi differenziale		64
8	Polish (pl) Kryptoanaliza różnicowa		46
9	Hebrew (he) קריפטואנליזה דיפרנציאלית		17
10	Simple English (simple) Differential cryptanalysis		17

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Differential cryptanalysis		94
2	German (de) Differenzielle Kryptoanalyse		57
3	French (fr) Cryptanalyse différentielle		33
4	Hebrew (he) קריפטואנליזה דיפרנציאלית		23
5	Russian (ru) Дифференциальный криптоанализ		22
6	Italian (it) Crittanalisi differenziale		20
7	Polish (pl) Kryptoanaliza różnicowa		11
8	Ukrainian (uk) Диференціальний криптоаналіз		11
9	Japanese (ja) 差分解読法		10
10	Simple English (simple) Differential cryptanalysis		10

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	Catalan (ca) Criptoanàlisi diferencial		0
2	German (de) Differenzielle Kryptoanalyse		0
3	English (en) Differential cryptanalysis		0
4	Spanish (es) Criptoanálisis diferencial		0
5	Persian (fa) رمزگذاری تفاضلی		0
6	Finnish (fi) Differentiaalinen kryptoanalyysi		0
7	French (fr) Cryptanalyse différentielle		0
8	Hebrew (he) קריפטואנליזה דיפרנציאלית		0
9	Italian (it) Crittanalisi differenziale		0
10	Japanese (ja) 差分解読法		0

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

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