diff --git a/doc/api/crypto.markdown b/doc/api/crypto.markdown
index 0550b4354494db..37b54811673c1f 100644
--- a/doc/api/crypto.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/crypto.markdown
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ called.
 
 You can disable auto padding if the data has been encrypted without
 standard block padding to prevent `decipher.final` from checking and
-removing it. Can only work if the input data's length is a multiple of
+removing it. This will only work if the input data's length is a multiple of
 the ciphers block size. You must call this before streaming data to
 `decipher.update`.