This had me going for a while, but it turns out it's just a server status report
via the finger(1) command. No secret CIA key distribution channel, sadly.
Ref: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/04/coded_messages_on_us.html
Coded messages on US govt timeserver's nonstandard port
A US government timeserver has a bizarre service running on a nonstandard port
that will output sweet, random coded jump-rope poems and numbers:
% telnet time.nist.gov 78
Trying 192.43.244.18...
Connected to time.nist.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
P: P: My name is Patsy: and my husband's name is Paul:
We come from Pittsburgh: and we sell Peaches::
880-223-821-266-590-908-785
$ 0 875 3000 8 1 0 0
Connection closed by foreign host.
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