gpg certificate authorities

[Douglas Calvert]

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Hello,
 I am sure this has been discussed before but here goes. Why are there
not gpg certificate authorities that will verify someones identity? If
there are places like thawte why not the same thing for openpgp?

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| Douglas Calvert |         <dfc@anize.org>  http://anize.org         |
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| Encrypted email | They that can give up liberty to obtain a little  |
|  is encouraged  |temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety|
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|   http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x13300731    |
+-------| EF9C 7E3C 0327 EAAF 1E20  5299 0805 7531 1330 0731 |--------+

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