Kerberos (protocol)

Quality:

Kerberos - computer authentication protocol. Article “Kerberos (protocol)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 8 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 “Kerberos (protocol)”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1129 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1458 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3700 in July 2018
• Global: #4338 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1260 in October 2009
• Global: #15510 in February 2014

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, 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) Kerberos (protocol)		40.4847
2	Hebrew (he) קרברוס (פרוטוקול)		33.9873
3	Portuguese (pt) Kerberos		32.1064
4	Turkish (tr) Kerberos (iletişim kuralı)		31.9685
5	Japanese (ja) ケルベロス認証		31.558
6	Russian (ru) Kerberos		31.1713
7	Simple English (simple) Kerberos (protocol)		25.4251
8	German (de) Kerberos (Protokoll)		23.5837
9	Chinese (zh) Kerberos		19.6616
10	Arabic (ar) كيربيروس		19.4864

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kerberos (protocol)		6 837 769
2	German (de) Kerberos (Protokoll)		1 155 945
3	Russian (ru) Kerberos		799 481
4	Spanish (es) Kerberos		687 634
5	Japanese (ja) ケルベロス認証		474 775
6	French (fr) Kerberos (protocole)		424 449
7	Chinese (zh) Kerberos		323 078
8	Polish (pl) Kerberos (informatyka)		226 322
9	Portuguese (pt) Kerberos		208 377
10	Dutch (nl) Kerberos (protocol)		170 785

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) Kerberos (protocol)		10 127
2	German (de) Kerberos (Protokoll)		1 599
3	French (fr) Kerberos (protocole)		988
4	Russian (ru) Kerberos		779
5	Japanese (ja) ケルベロス認証		708
6	Chinese (zh) Kerberos		341
7	Spanish (es) Kerberos		292
8	Italian (it) Kerberos		265
9	Polish (pl) Kerberos (informatyka)		221
10	Dutch (nl) Kerberos (protocol)		177

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kerberos (protocol)		344
2	German (de) Kerberos (Protokoll)		108
3	French (fr) Kerberos (protocole)		83
4	Russian (ru) Kerberos		61
5	Italian (it) Kerberos		57
6	Spanish (es) Kerberos		48
7	Hebrew (he) קרברוס (פרוטוקול)		44
8	Dutch (nl) Kerberos (protocol)		40
9	Japanese (ja) ケルベロス認証		39
10	Portuguese (pt) Kerberos		31

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	Arabic (ar) كيربيروس		1
2	English (en) Kerberos (protocol)		1
3	French (fr) Kerberos (protocole)		1
4	Indonesian (id) Kerberos (protokol)		1
5	Japanese (ja) ケルベロス認証		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Kerberos		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Kerberos		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Kerberos		0
9	Catalan (ca) Kerberos		0
10	Czech (cs) Kerberos (protokol)		0

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

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