diff --git a/pkg/authorization/api.go b/pkg/authorization/api.go
index 05c75f1a67..e8d7996c6e 100644
--- a/pkg/authorization/api.go
+++ b/pkg/authorization/api.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const (
 )
 
 // PeerCertificate is a wrapper around x509.Certificate which provides a sane
-// enconding/decoding to/from PEM format and JSON.
+// encoding/decoding to/from PEM format and JSON.
 type PeerCertificate x509.Certificate
 
 // MarshalJSON returns the JSON encoded pem bytes of a PeerCertificate.