diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9f652f9e347e..2b8ff7561561 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue 18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
 - Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
   malloc weak symbols.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index 0b6647fa50d3..47015606c2dd 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -2934,7 +2934,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(PySSL_RAND_egd_doc,
 \n\
 Queries the entropy gather daemon (EGD) on the socket named by 'path'.\n\
 Returns number of bytes read.  Raises SSLError if connection to EGD\n\
-fails or if it does provide enough data to seed PRNG.");
+fails or if it does not provide enough data to seed PRNG.");
 
 #endif