since it's a webserver running on the local machine and is using that 
certificate key/pair, i think that someone more capable than me can easily 
extract the key from it.

>From my point of view as an observer it's plainly obvious that the private key 
>must be on my local machine too, even if i haven't actually got to the key 
>itself yet.

On Monday, 25 December 2017 16:58:42 UTC+2, Jeremy Rowley  wrote:
> I think this raises a question on what level of investigation and assumption 
> is required by the ca. Let's encrypt, for example, requires submission of the 
> private key for revocation (https://letsencrypt.org/docs/revoking/). Is 
> simply providing a reference rather than the key sufficient?
>
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