diff --git a/cloud/agent/agent.go b/cloud/agent/agent.go
index 6432586..2805f42 100644
--- a/cloud/agent/agent.go
+++ b/cloud/agent/agent.go
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 	supervisor.Run(ctx, "networking", networkSvc.Run)
 	l.Info("Started networking")
 
-	ephemeralCert, err := newEphemeralCert(ed25519.PrivateKey(agentInit.PrivateKey))
+	ephemeralCert, err := newEphemeralCert(agentInit.PrivateKey)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("could not generate ephemeral credentials: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/cloud/agent/takeover/takeover.go b/cloud/agent/takeover/takeover.go
index ec7e416..a62dc8c 100644
--- a/cloud/agent/takeover/takeover.go
+++ b/cloud/agent/takeover/takeover.go
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
 		time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
 		// Perform kexec, this will not return unless it fails
 		err := unix.Reboot(unix.LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC)
-		var msg string = "takeover: reboot succeeded, but we're still runing??"
+		var msg = "takeover: reboot succeeded, but we're still runing??"
 		if err != nil {
 			msg = err.Error()
 		}