This is a client for the game-shaped exercises which are part of Crypto 101, the introductory book on cryptography by lvh.

The short version: use tox.

The long version: see the extra notes for merlyn.

A much nicer version you can actually play around with.

• stanczyk is now continuously tested, thanks to Travis CI. Coverage is measured thanks to Coveralls.
• Solution notification: when an exercise is solved, stanczyk will say something.
• Exercise listing and exercise details listing commands.
• Proxy commands. You can now connect to remote virtual servers.
• Nicer terminal line overwriting routines, which makes it less obvious that stuff is happening asynchronously (sometimes).
• When starting, a nice table is displayed with all of the available commands, plus a short description of what they do.

I've made a short video that roughly coincides with this version.

Initial version. Contains a nice basic manhole with no extra commands.

stanczyk is named after Stańczyk, a historical Polish jester. Other Crypto 101 projects (such as merlyn, arthur and clarent) were already named after things from the court of Arthurian legend; I picked Stańczyk because:

1. Poland is awesome.
2. This project looks simple, but it's actually pretty clever; perhaps more than its peers.
3. Poland is awesome.

The banner is an excerpt from the famous painting of Stańczyk by Jan Matejko.