diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index 9763bda..4b7ef03 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ void hex_dump(const char *str, const void *data, ssize_t len, const struct debug
 
 /*
  * mostly match getline() semantics but:
- * 1) accept CEOT (Ctrl-D, 0x04) at begining of line as an input terminator
+ * 1) accept CEOT (Ctrl-D, 0x04) at beginning of line as an input terminator
  * 2) allocate the buffer at max line size of GETLINE_MAX_BUFLEN bytes
  * 3) remove trailing newline
  *
diff --git a/src/crypto-openssl.c b/src/crypto-openssl.c
index c8b2bc1..54f7073 100644
--- a/src/crypto-openssl.c
+++ b/src/crypto-openssl.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ int crypto_verify_chain(crypto_ctx *ctx,
 	}
 	/* X509_STORE_CTX_init did not return an error condition in prior versions */
 	if (X509_STORE_CTX_init (verify_ctx, store, x509, ctx->stack) != 1) {
-		crypto_error_set(error, 1, 0, "error intializing verification context");
+		crypto_error_set(error, 1, 0, "error initializing verification context");
 		goto out;
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/math_group.c b/src/math_group.c
index 4924b72..be9384a 100644
--- a/src/math_group.c
+++ b/src/math_group.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int modp_operation(struct group *, gcry_mpi_t, gcry_mpi_t, gcry_mpi_t);
 
 /*
  * This module provides access to the operations on the specified group
- * and is absolutly free of any cryptographic devices. This is math :-).
+ * and is absolutely free of any cryptographic devices. This is math :-).
  */
 
 /* Describe preconfigured MODP groups */
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static struct group groups[] = {
 
 /*
  * Initialize the group structure for later use,
- * this is done by converting the values given in the describtion
+ * this is done by converting the values given in the description
  * and converting them to their native representation.
  */
 void group_init(void)
diff --git a/src/pcf2vpnc b/src/pcf2vpnc
index 3b048f0..2e6a6d9 100755
--- a/src/pcf2vpnc
+++ b/src/pcf2vpnc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ sub readPCF($) {
 	# Filter unnecessary chars at beginning & end of line
 	s/^!*//; s/[\r ]*$//;
 	if (/^(.*?)=(.*?)$/) {
-	    # We don't need emtpy config strings
+	    # We don't need empty config strings
 	    next if ($2 eq "");
 	    if ($1 eq "Host") {
 		$config{IPSec}{gateway} = $2;
diff --git a/src/test/README.txt b/src/test/README.txt
index 5445cdc..1abfdce 100644
--- a/src/test/README.txt
+++ b/src/test/README.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ See below for more details on how to use test-crypto.
 
 openSSL is required to rebuild the test files.
 To avoid the dependence from openSSL during SW compile,
-all required files are distribuited together with the
+all required files are distributed together with the
 VPNC source code.
 
 The Makefile in this folder is able to rebuild all the
diff --git a/src/vpnc.c b/src/vpnc.c
index 7872a3a..27e0d7b 100644
--- a/src/vpnc.c
+++ b/src/vpnc.c
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ static void lifetime_ipsec_process(struct sa_block *s, struct isakmp_attribute *
 	else
 		s->ipsec.life.kbytes = value;
 
-	/* FIXME: for notice-payloads: write a seperate function to handle them */
+	/* FIXME: for notice-payloads: write a separate function to handle them */
 	/* bug: this may process lifetime-attributes of SAs twice but to no consequence */
 	if (a->next->next != NULL && a->next->next->type == ISAKMP_IPSEC_ATTRIB_SA_LIFE_TYPE)
 		lifetime_ipsec_process(s, a->next->next);
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ static void do_phase1_am_packet1(struct sa_block *s, const char *key_id)
 static void do_phase1_am_packet2(struct sa_block *s, const char *shared_key)
 {
 	DEBUGTOP(2, printf("S4.4 AM_packet2\n"));
-	/* Decode the recieved packet.  */
+	/* Decode the received packet.  */
 	{
 		int reject, ret;
 		struct isakmp_packet *r;
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ static void do_phase1_am_packet2(struct sa_block *s, const char *shared_key)
 		reject = 0;
 		r = parse_isakmp_packet(r_packet, r_length, &reject);
 
-		/* Verify the correctness of the recieved packet.  */
+		/* Verify the correctness of the received packet.  */
 		if (reject == 0 && memcmp(r->i_cookie, s->ike.i_cookie, ISAKMP_COOKIE_LENGTH) != 0)
 			reject = ISAKMP_N_INVALID_COOKIE;
 		if (reject == 0)