No, I'm not talking about encrypting connections to the cloud servers. I'm talking about what the reaction will be to projects that use encryption to hide data.
If I were given a week and a motive, I could hack together an RSA encryption scheme with scratch that hid cloud variables from outside observers. It wouldn't really be secure (After about 2^53, digits start falling off), but it would demonstrate the power of encryption in scratch. I believe such a thing is called a proof of concept.

The bigger question is what mods would do about this. It could be useful for keeping things like team messages from unauthorized people, but encryption would also defeat the purpose of making cloud variables public.

Comments?

Well, I had a conversation with Lightnin a while back about whether encrypted communications were allowed for a form of private messaging, and he said this:

Lightnin wrote:

No, encrypted communications are definitely not allowed. If we see it happening, we may block the accounts used to do it.

Ok, you answered my main question. But what about other uses of encryption (IE server-mode passwords that would be easily compromised if they weren't hidden)? What would happen to them?

eaglgenes101 wrote:

Ok, you answered my main question. But what about other uses of encryption (IE server-mode passwords that would be easily compromised if they weren't hidden)? What would happen to them?

Well, the way the system works, you shouldn't need passwords at all, because you can link data to a specific user using the username block.

If you absolutely have to store a password, I think that it's ok, but don't use it for any form of communication.

Well I am working on a game that will have set chat but to make it easier and less glitchy it will encode the text of the box you clicked and decode it on the other side is that ok?

Bump with above question

DrDowfin wrote:

Well I am working on a game that will have set chat but to make it easier and less glitchy it will encode the text of the box you clicked and decode it on the other side is that ok?

Yes, that is ok.