Stack Exchange — crypto.stackexchange.com

The content of crypto.stackexchange.com (https://crypto.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 208,613 rows: 68,495 posts (30,327 questions, 37,048 answers, 547 tag wiki excerpts, 547 tag wikis, 22 posts of type 6 and 4 posts of type 7) and 140,118 comments, written between 12 February 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 88,005 user accounts, 320,194 votes, 131,097 badges awarded, 529 tags, 254,034 post revisions and 13,166 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 481 rows.

#Cryptography#Expertise network#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 15,839 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

15.8K
Nodes
30.7K
Edges
1.23e-04
Density
218
Components
-0.132
Assortativity
0.7%
Reciprocity
8.9K
Bridges
Most central nodes
5550.00606
9050.00505
212600.00461
236230.00366
39410.00366
70600.00366
231150.0036
11470.00341
64040.00335
11410.00316
Content metrics

208,613 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.531 ± 4.723
min -12max 423
x view countμ 1.6K ± 6.6K
min 9max 279.5K
x answer countμ 1.222 ± 0.994
min 0max 23
x comment countμ 2.046 ± 2.618
min 0max 37
x favorite count1.6% true
true 1.6%false 98.5%
9.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
keyusehashbitencryptionrandommessagequestionsecuritypublicfunctionlikebitsaesdatacipherknownumbertimeneedwaykeyssecurealgorithmblockrsaanswersecretdonvalueattackpossiblecaseoutputprivatepasswordproblemexampleciphertextdifferentsizesignatureplaintextwant256schemefindlengthgivenpoint
Topic clusters

Topic 0

answer
question
thank
edit
comment
think
link
ask

Topic 1

rsa
prime
curve
elliptic
point
group
key
signature

Topic 2

hash
function
password
collision
salt
input
bit
output

Topic 3

alice
bob
secret
party
share
key
protocol
send

Topic 4

random
entropy
test
bit
seed
number
output
generator

Topic 5

mode
block
aes
cbc
gcm
cipher
ciphertext
ctr

Topic 6

adversary
cryptography
security
question
encryption
crypto
cpa
scheme

Topic 7

cipher
ciphertext
plaintext
key
text
pad
block
letter

Topic 8

certificate
server
key
client
public
tls
sign
signature
Top hashtags
#11.7K
#7501
#2438
#page327
#5276
#section275
#3219
#include212
#8201
#11195
#e195
#define194
#12112
#1v186
#1v282
#472
#subsubsection35
#630
#appendix27
#k25

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-crypto-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
239,362
Nodes
15,839
Edges
30,734 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2011/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 99.2 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (208,613 rows), users (88,005 rows), x_votes (320,194 rows), x_badges (131,097 rows), x_tags (529 rows), x_post_history (254,034 rows), x_post_links (13,166 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2024,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {apr},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — crypto.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-crypto.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — crypto.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-crypto.echo.directory/.

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