Is ReximusMaximus on EastIndiaCo the real Rex?

UPDATE: /u/tismond has confirmed that these are two subkeys created with the same master key, and /u/aznkidjoey confirms that his Nucleus profile announced a move to EIC. I msg'd Rex on EIC asking him to update his grams just for clarities sake, but it seems like there's nothing to see here other than a very well-regarded vendor on a new market.

ORIGINAL POST: At first glance everything looks OK, but I've seen so many scammers impersonate good vendors on new markets that I'm trying to be careful.

Two red flags:

Rex's grams profile (http://grams7enufi7jmdl.onion/infodesk/vendor/0x92D20C015AC94D23) lists lelantos and safe-mail addresses, whereas his EIC About page lists Sigaint.

The PGP key on the grams profile looks slightly different than the one listed on EIC. When I throw both of these into GPG it lists them as two subkeys of the same key. That's beyond my knowledge of how PGP works, and I don't know if it's spoofable.

Again, just being super careful given recent events. Probably the real deal and a slightly out of date grams profile, but thought I would ask.


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[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] aznkidjoey:

His Nucleus account says he moved to East India Co


[1 Points] tismond:

The one on EIC is a subkey using his lelantos address. The one on grams is a subkey for his safe-mail address. Looks like they were both created by the same master key:

pub  2048R/5AC94D23  created: 2014-10-25  expires: never       usage: SC  
                     trust: unknown       validity: unknown
sub  2048R/78E59013  created: 2014-10-25  expires: never       usage: E   
sub  4096R/D4CA4FDD  created: 2015-03-31  expires: never       usage: E   
[ unknown] (1). Reximusmaximus <Reximusmaximus@lelantos.org>
[ unknown] (2)  Reximusmaximus <rexreincarnated@safe-mail.net>

Unless his master key got compromised, it's a pretty safe bet he's the same guy.


[1 Points] qwert123459:

why cant I find him on EastIndiaCo when I search his name. Hes already set up there right?