diff --git a/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment.rs b/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment.rs
index 562b83b1d..5a5a0a51b 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment.rs
+++ b/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,24 @@ use super::keys::{find_group_hash, Diversifier, TransmissionKey};
 
 use pedersen_hashes::*;
 
+/// Generates a random scalar from the scalar field 𝔽_{r_𝕁}.
+///
+/// The prime order subgroup 𝕁^(r) is the order-r_𝕁 subgroup of 𝕁 that consists
+/// of the points whose order divides r. This function is useful when generating
+/// the uniform distribution on 𝔽_{r_𝕁} needed for Sapling commitment schemes'
+/// trapdoor generators.
+///
+/// https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf#jubjub
+pub fn generate_trapdoor<T>(csprng: &mut T) -> jubjub::Fr
+where
+    T: RngCore + CryptoRng,
+{
+    let mut bytes = [0u8; 64];
+    csprng.fill_bytes(&mut bytes);
+    // Fr::from_bytes_wide() reduces the input modulo r via Fr::from_u512()
+    jubjub::Fr::from_bytes_wide(&bytes)
+}
+
 /// The randomness used in the Pedersen Hash for note commitment.
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
 pub struct CommitmentRandomness(jubjub::Fr);
diff --git a/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment/pedersen_hashes.rs b/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment/pedersen_hashes.rs
index 1d74cdd03..912a4bb1f 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment/pedersen_hashes.rs
+++ b/zebra-chain/src/sapling/commitment/pedersen_hashes.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 //! Pedersen hash functions and helpers.
 
 use bitvec::prelude::*;
-use rand_core::{CryptoRng, RngCore};
 
 use super::super::keys::find_group_hash;
 
@@ -127,21 +126,3 @@ pub fn windowed_pedersen_commitment(r: jubjub::Fr, s: &BitVec<Lsb0, u8>) -> jubj
 
     pedersen_hash_to_point(D, &s) + find_group_hash(D, b"r") * r
 }
-
-/// Generates a random scalar from the scalar field 𝔽_{r_𝕁}.
-///
-/// The prime order subgroup 𝕁^(r) is the order-r_𝕁 subgroup of 𝕁 that consists
-/// of the points whose order divides r. This function is useful when generating
-/// the uniform distribution on 𝔽_{r_𝕁} needed for Sapling commitment schemes'
-/// trapdoor generators.
-///
-/// https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf#jubjub
-pub fn generate_trapdoor<T>(csprng: &mut T) -> jubjub::Fr
-where
-    T: RngCore + CryptoRng,
-{
-    let mut bytes = [0u8; 64];
-    csprng.fill_bytes(&mut bytes);
-    // Fr::from_bytes_wide() reduces the input modulo r via Fr::from_u512()
-    jubjub::Fr::from_bytes_wide(&bytes)
-}
diff --git a/zebra-chain/src/sapling/keys.rs b/zebra-chain/src/sapling/keys.rs
index 4cf2c9212..8dedc122b 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/src/sapling/keys.rs
+++ b/zebra-chain/src/sapling/keys.rs
@@ -63,6 +63,25 @@ fn prf_expand(sk: [u8; 32], t: &[u8]) -> [u8; 64] {
     *hash.as_array()
 }
 
+/// Used to derive the outgoing cipher key _ock_ used to encrypt an Output ciphertext.
+///
+/// PRF^ock(ovk, cv, cm_u, ephemeralKey) := BLAKE2b-256(“Zcash_Derive_ock”, ovk || cv || cm_u || ephemeralKey)
+///
+/// https://zips.z.cash/protocol/nu5.pdf#concreteprfs
+fn prf_ock(ovk: [u8; 32], cv: [u8; 32], cm_u: [u8; 32], ephemeral_key: [u8; 32]) -> [u8; 32] {
+    let hash = blake2b_simd::Params::new()
+        .hash_length(32)
+        .personal(b"Zcash_Derive_ock")
+        .to_state()
+        .update(ovk)
+        .update(cv)
+        .update(cm_u)
+        .update(ephemeral_key)
+        .finalize();
+
+    *hash.as_array()
+}
+
 /// Invokes Blake2s-256 as _CRH^ivk_, to derive the IncomingViewingKey
 /// bytes from an AuthorizingKey and NullifierDerivingKey.
 ///