diff --git a/swarm/network/simulation/node.go b/swarm/network/simulation/node.go
index c931bb8825..46c2bb8660 100644
--- a/swarm/network/simulation/node.go
+++ b/swarm/network/simulation/node.go
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func (s *Simulation) AddNode(opts ...AddNodeOption) (id enode.ID, err error) {
 	// for now we have no way of setting bootnodes or lightnodes in sims
 	// so we just let them be set to false
 	// they should perhaps be possible to override them with AddNodeOption
-	bzzPrivateKey, err := BzzKeyFromConfig(conf)
+	bzzPrivateKey, err := BzzPrivateKeyFromConfig(conf)
 	if err != nil {
 		return enode.ID{}, err
 	}
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ func init() {
 
 // derive a private key for swarm for the node key
 // returns the private key used to generate the bzz key
-func BzzKeyFromConfig(conf *adapters.NodeConfig) (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) {
+func BzzPrivateKeyFromConfig(conf *adapters.NodeConfig) (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) {
 	// pad the seed key some arbitrary data as ecdsa.GenerateKey takes 40 bytes seed data
 	privKeyBuf := append(crypto.FromECDSA(conf.PrivateKey), []byte{0x62, 0x7a, 0x7a, 0x62, 0x7a, 0x7a, 0x62, 0x7a}...)
 	bzzPrivateKey, err := ecdsa.GenerateKey(crypto.S256(), bytes.NewReader(privKeyBuf))
diff --git a/swarm/pss/prox_test.go b/swarm/pss/prox_test.go
index bbcd1247a4..bc32e612d3 100644
--- a/swarm/pss/prox_test.go
+++ b/swarm/pss/prox_test.go
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ func newProxServices(tstdata *testData, allowRaw bool, handlerContextFuncs map[T
 			// if the translation in the network package changes, that can cause these tests to unpredictably fail
 			// therefore we keep a local copy of the translation here
 			addr := network.NewAddr(ctx.Config.Node())
-			bzzPrivateKey, err = simulation.BzzKeyFromConfig(ctx.Config)
+			bzzPrivateKey, err = simulation.BzzPrivateKeyFromConfig(ctx.Config)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, nil, err
 			}
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ func newProxServices(tstdata *testData, allowRaw bool, handlerContextFuncs map[T
 			privkey, err := w.GetPrivateKey(keys)
 			pssp := NewPssParams().WithPrivateKey(privkey)
 			pssp.AllowRaw = allowRaw
-			bzzPrivateKey, err := simulation.BzzKeyFromConfig(ctx.Config)
+			bzzPrivateKey, err := simulation.BzzPrivateKeyFromConfig(ctx.Config)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, nil, err
 			}