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Summary
On the USS Iwo Jima in 2018, the ship carried more than 40 megabits of satellite bandwidth. Yet every encrypted connection on the unclassified network crawled at eight megabits while plain HTTP ran fast. Automox CISO Jason Kikta, then a Marine Corps major, chased the problem for weeks with Lieutenant Matthew Yates before tracing it off the ship entirely. The ground station handling the ship's satellite links, likely in Italy since they were in the Mediterranean, still ran circuit-switched multiplexing years after the upgrade to packet switching had been approved. That trapped encrypted traffic on a single satellite pipe. Kikta tells the story as a Thanksgiving thank-you to Yates, whose persistence proved the cap sat on the distant end and got it fixed in one phone call.
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