diff --git a/src/common/crypto.c b/src/common/crypto.c
index 672ab2d55fe23a22f6d0bdcb0d713c77a6ead1fc..7c73f79cff509192a10f1dd2af9fb4bcba71b065 100644
--- a/src/common/crypto.c
+++ b/src/common/crypto.c
@@ -2579,7 +2579,7 @@ smartlist_shuffle(smartlist_t *sl)
   }
 }
 
-/** Base-64 encode <b>srclen</b> bytes of data from <b>src</b>.  Write
+/** Base64 encode <b>srclen</b> bytes of data from <b>src</b>.  Write
  * the result into <b>dest</b>, if it will fit within <b>destlen</b>
  * bytes.  Return the number of bytes written on success; -1 if
  * destlen is too short, or other failure.
@@ -2638,7 +2638,7 @@ static const uint8_t base64_decode_table[256] = {
   X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X,
 };
 
-/** Base-64 decode <b>srclen</b> bytes of data from <b>src</b>.  Write
+/** Base64 decode <b>srclen</b> bytes of data from <b>src</b>.  Write
  * the result into <b>dest</b>, if it will fit within <b>destlen</b>
  * bytes.  Return the number of bytes written on success; -1 if
  * destlen is too short, or other failure.
@@ -2745,7 +2745,7 @@ base64_decode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen)
 #undef SP
 #undef PAD
 
-/** Base-64 encode DIGEST_LINE bytes from <b>digest</b>, remove the trailing =
+/** Base64 encode DIGEST_LINE bytes from <b>digest</b>, remove the trailing =
  * and newline characters, and store the nul-terminated result in the first
  * BASE64_DIGEST_LEN+1 bytes of <b>d64</b>.  */
 int
@@ -2758,7 +2758,7 @@ digest_to_base64(char *d64, const char *digest)
   return 0;
 }
 
-/** Given a base-64 encoded, nul-terminated digest in <b>d64</b> (without
+/** Given a base64 encoded, nul-terminated digest in <b>d64</b> (without
  * trailing newline or = characters), decode it and store the result in the
  * first DIGEST_LEN bytes at <b>digest</b>. */
 int
@@ -2783,7 +2783,7 @@ digest_from_base64(char *digest, const char *d64)
 #endif
 }
 
-/** Base-64 encode DIGEST256_LINE bytes from <b>digest</b>, remove the
+/** Base64 encode DIGEST256_LINE bytes from <b>digest</b>, remove the
  * trailing = and newline characters, and store the nul-terminated result in
  * the first BASE64_DIGEST256_LEN+1 bytes of <b>d64</b>.  */
 int
@@ -2796,7 +2796,7 @@ digest256_to_base64(char *d64, const char *digest)
   return 0;
 }
 
-/** Given a base-64 encoded, nul-terminated digest in <b>d64</b> (without
+/** Given a base64 encoded, nul-terminated digest in <b>d64</b> (without
  * trailing newline or = characters), decode it and store the result in the
  * first DIGEST256_LEN bytes at <b>digest</b>. */
 int
diff --git a/src/common/crypto.h b/src/common/crypto.h
index 24f6a48bcc5f2434583b1d59ca5d2f4b8955b59d..08efc801d3f0247aceb61b7548d5855240225436 100644
--- a/src/common/crypto.h
+++ b/src/common/crypto.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ void smartlist_shuffle(struct smartlist_t *sl);
 
 int base64_encode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen);
 int base64_decode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen);
-/** Characters that can appear (case-insensitively) in a base-32 encoding. */
+/** Characters that can appear (case-insensitively) in a base32 encoding. */
 #define BASE32_CHARS "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz234567"
 void base32_encode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen);
 int base32_decode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen);
diff --git a/src/or/rendcommon.c b/src/or/rendcommon.c
index addbd42b9ec2066b77b34f248eb480a0c73ea327..79c1a724e4558bcb7768f799395eb13b247e3e8c 100644
--- a/src/or/rendcommon.c
+++ b/src/or/rendcommon.c
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ rend_cache_lookup_entry(const char *query, int version, rend_cache_entry_t **e)
   return 1;
 }
 
-/** <b>query</b> is a base-32'ed service id. If it's malformed, return -1.
+/** <b>query</b> is a base32'ed service id. If it's malformed, return -1.
  * Else look it up.
  *   - If it is found, point *desc to it, and write its length into
  *     *desc_len, and return 1.