diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 79c95bc..cf5411e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ bitflags      = "1.2"
 generic-array = "0.14"
 jsonwebtoken  = { version = "8.0", optional = true }
 num-bigint    = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
-p256          = { version = "0.9", optional = true, features = ["arithmetic"] }
+p256          = { version = "0.10", optional = true, features = ["arithmetic"] }
 rand          = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 serde         = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json    = "1.0"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index a62e623..5c88d77 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ impl Key {
         let sk = elliptic_curve::SecretKey::random(&mut rand::thread_rng());
         let sk_scalar = p256::Scalar::from(&sk);
 
-        let pk = p256::ProjectivePoint::generator() * sk_scalar;
+        let pk = p256::ProjectivePoint::GENERATOR * sk_scalar;
         let pk_bytes = &pk
             .to_affine()
             .to_encoded_point(false /* compress */)