Public-key cryptography

Quality:

Public-key cryptography - cryptosystem that uses both public and private keys. Article "Public-key cryptography" in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Public-key cryptography", its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2227 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5548 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #386 in November 2019
• Global: #276 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #314 in March 2022
• Global: #5632 in April 2015

There are 43 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) Public-key cryptography		58.1703
2	Catalan (ca) Criptografia de clau pública		46.1511
3	Portuguese (pt) Criptografia de chave pública		41.4945
4	French (fr) Cryptographie asymétrique		40.7918
5	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلید عمومی		38.0848
6	Hebrew (he) מפתח ציבורי		36.4209
7	Armenian (hy) Հանրային բանալիների գաղտնագրություն		33.9216
8	Russian (ru) Криптосистема с открытым ключом		31.8235
9	Croatian (hr) Kriptografija javnog ključa		30.5989
10	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã hóa khóa công khai		28.4704

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Public-key cryptography		12 317 390
2	Russian (ru) Криптосистема с открытым ключом		1 914 563
3	German (de) Asymmetrisches Kryptosystem		1 543 702
4	Spanish (es) Criptografía asimétrica		1 235 040
5	French (fr) Cryptographie asymétrique		1 137 741
6	Japanese (ja) 公開鍵暗号		1 110 843
7	Italian (it) Crittografia asimmetrica		989 764
8	Chinese (zh) 公开密钥加密		711 255
9	Polish (pl) Kryptografia klucza publicznego		630 849
10	Portuguese (pt) Criptografia de chave pública		583 978

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) Public-key cryptography		26 702
2	Russian (ru) Криптосистема с открытым ключом		3 406
3	German (de) Asymmetrisches Kryptosystem		2 590
4	French (fr) Cryptographie asymétrique		2 232
5	Japanese (ja) 公開鍵暗号		2 180
6	Chinese (zh) 公开密钥加密		1 600
7	Italian (it) Crittografia asimmetrica		1 298
8	Spanish (es) Criptografía asimétrica		1 236
9	Simple English (simple) Public-key cryptography		864
10	Polish (pl) Kryptografia klucza publicznego		787

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Public-key cryptography		627
2	German (de) Asymmetrisches Kryptosystem		198
3	French (fr) Cryptographie asymétrique		165
4	Italian (it) Crittografia asimmetrica		132
5	Russian (ru) Криптосистема с открытым ключом		118
6	Spanish (es) Criptografía asimétrica		94
7	Hebrew (he) מפתח ציבורי		76
8	Chinese (zh) 公开密钥加密		75
9	Japanese (ja) 公開鍵暗号		71
10	Polish (pl) Kryptografia klucza publicznego		64

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) Public-key cryptography		7
2	Arabic (ar) تعمية بمفتاح عام		2
3	Spanish (es) Criptografía asimétrica		2
4	Russian (ru) Криптосистема с открытым ключом		2
5	German (de) Asymmetrisches Kryptosystem		1
6	French (fr) Cryptographie asymétrique		1
7	Hebrew (he) מפתח ציבורי		1
8	Japanese (ja) 公開鍵暗号		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Асиметричен шифър		0
10	Catalan (ca) Criptografia de clau pública		0

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

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