diff --git a/xmlsecurity/source/framework/signatureverifierimpl.cxx b/xmlsecurity/source/framework/signatureverifierimpl.cxx
index b96050d5c0bd..cfee9c6f1caa 100644
--- a/xmlsecurity/source/framework/signatureverifierimpl.cxx
+++ b/xmlsecurity/source/framework/signatureverifierimpl.cxx
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ void SignatureVerifierImpl::notifyResultListener() const
 /****** SignatureVerifierImpl/notifyResultListener ***************************
  *
  *   NAME
- *  notifyResultListener -- notifies the listener about the verify result.
+ *  notifyResultListener -- notifies the listener about the verification result.
  ******************************************************************************/
 {
     css::uno::Reference< css::xml::crypto::sax::XSignatureVerifyResultListener >
diff --git a/xmlsecurity/source/helper/xsecctl.cxx b/xmlsecurity/source/helper/xsecctl.cxx
index 99f8fde4fe4e..ff7874bc3793 100644
--- a/xmlsecurity/source/helper/xsecctl.cxx
+++ b/xmlsecurity/source/helper/xsecctl.cxx
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ void XSecController::UpdateSignatureInformation(sal_Int32 const nSecurityId,
     std::vector<SignatureInformation::X509Data> && rDatas)
 {
     int const nIndex = findSignatureInfor(nSecurityId);
-    assert(nIndex != -1); // nothing should touch this between parsing and verify
+    assert(nIndex != -1); // nothing should touch this between parsing and verification
     m_vInternalSignatureInformations[nIndex].signatureInfor.X509Datas = std::move(rDatas);
 }
 
diff --git a/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/mscrypt/akmngr.cxx b/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/mscrypt/akmngr.cxx
index 2859c10e20d4..14f2f15c37c3 100644
--- a/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/mscrypt/akmngr.cxx
+++ b/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/mscrypt/akmngr.cxx
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ xmlSecKeysMngrPtr MSCryptoAppliedKeysMngrCreate()
      * Set certificate database to X509 key data store
      */
     /*-
-     * At present, MS Crypto engine do not provide a way to setup a cert store.
+     * At present, MS Crypto engine does not provide a way to set up a cert store.
      */
 
     /*-
diff --git a/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/secerror.cxx b/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/secerror.cxx
index b7e623ce00b8..c82c42bde915 100644
--- a/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/secerror.cxx
+++ b/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/secerror.cxx
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ const ErrDesc allDesc[] = {
 
 
 /* Returns a UTF-8 encoded constant error string for "errNum".
- * Returns NULL of errNum is unknown.
+ * Returns NULL if errNum is unknown.
  */
 const char *
 getCertError(PRErrorCode errNum)