EV certs have a complex verification process that can involve sending a physical representative from the company down to the place of business to confirm its pr

EV certs have a complex verification process that can involve sending a physical representative from the company down to the place of business to confirm its presence/existence. Bitcoin trading platforms have shown that compliance with AML/KYC regulations can be performed virtually by manual verification of a valid government ID, timestamped photo, handwritten note, and other mechanisms. A company offering this service would go outside of the keyserver and verify the ID independently. It'd be much more of a "notarized packages" paradigm rather than just "published by 1337PyHax0r-88". It is true that even extensive manual verification processes dependent on government-issued IDs can be faked, but there's a much higher bar involved.