diff --git a/src/Nostr/Encryption.hs b/src/Nostr/Encryption.hs
index 8375795..2de2ba9 100644
--- a/src/Nostr/Encryption.hs
+++ b/src/Nostr/Encryption.hs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import Crypto.Cipher.ChaCha (generate, initialize)
 import Crypto.Hash (SHA256(..))
 import Crypto.KDF.HKDF (PRK, extract, expand)
 import Crypto.MAC.HMAC (HMAC, hmac, hmacGetDigest)
-import Crypto.Random (getRandomBytes)
 import Data.Bits (shiftL, xor, (.|.))
 import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
 import Data.ByteArray (ByteArrayAccess)
@@ -64,9 +63,6 @@ calculateHmac key message aad =
       hmacResult = hmac key combined :: HMAC SHA256
   in BA.convert $ hmacGetDigest hmacResult
 
-generateSalt :: IO ByteString
-generateSalt = getRandomBytes 16
-
 getMessageKeys :: ByteString -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString, ByteString)
 getMessageKeys conversationKey nonce = do
   let prk = hkdfExtract conversationKey BS.empty