diff --git a/oathkeygen b/oathkeygen
index 89e385a..82e4eec 100755
--- a/oathkeygen
+++ b/oathkeygen
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ use MIME::Base32; #libmime-base32-perl
 
 my $test;
 open(RND, "/dev/urandom");
-sysread(RND, $test, 10) == 10 || die "read randon data failed\n";
+sysread(RND, $test, 10) == 10 || die "read random data failed\n";
 print MIME::Base32::encode_rfc3548($test) . "\n";