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doc: remove statement about client private keys 

This statement was objectively false. Clients usually only need to
generate and/or own a private key if the server sends a
CertificateRequest during the TLS handshake, which is not a common case.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41505
Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <panva.ip@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
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Tobias Nießen 2022-01-13 22:42:51 +01:00 committed by Tobias Nießen
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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const tls = require('tls');
## TLS/SSL concepts
The TLS/SSL is a public/private key infrastructure (PKI). For most common
cases, each client and server must have a _private key_.
cases, each server must have a _private key_.
Private keys can be generated in multiple ways. The example below illustrates
use of the OpenSSL command-line interface to generate a 2048-bit RSA private