diff --git a/04-onion-routing.md b/04-onion-routing.md
index e4f72e1c7..4cb24080f 100644
--- a/04-onion-routing.md
+++ b/04-onion-routing.md
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ There are a number of conventions adhered to throughout this document:
  - Elliptic curve: for all computations involving elliptic curves, the Bitcoin
    curve is used, as specified in [`secp256k1`][sec2]
  - Pseudo-random stream: [`ChaCha20`][rfc8439] is used to generate a
-   pseudo-random byte stream. For its generation, a fixed null-nonce
-   (`0x0000000000000000`) is used, along with a key derived from a shared
+   pseudo-random byte stream. For its generation, a fixed 96-bit null-nonce
+   (`0x000000000000000000000000`) is used, along with a key derived from a shared
    secret and with a `0x00`-byte stream of the desired output size as the
    message.
  - The terms _origin node_ and _final node_ refer to the initial packet sender
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The pseudo-random byte stream is used to obfuscate the packet at each hop of the
 path, so that each hop may only recover the address and HMAC of the next hop.
 The pseudo-random byte stream is generated by encrypting (using `ChaCha20`) a
 `0x00`-byte stream, of the required length, which is initialized with a key
-derived from the shared secret and a zero-nonce (`0x00000000000000`).
+derived from the shared secret and a 96-bit zero-nonce (`0x000000000000000000000000`).
 
 The use of a fixed nonce is safe, since the keys are never reused.