diff --git a/app/hkp/tests.py b/app/hkp/tests.py
index da08554b9029059f3e04345da6c4ee206ec2d8e7..c2d8b32f0a40c1824e7d7d5c98aef06aab7b6757 100644
--- a/app/hkp/tests.py
+++ b/app/hkp/tests.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class CaseSensitivityTestCase(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
 
     def test_upper(self):
-        """Check that lower case string can be used to lookup a key"""
+        """Check that upper case string can be used to lookup a key"""
         response = self.client.get('/pks/lookup?op=get&search=ABCD')
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
 
diff --git a/app/hkp/views.py b/app/hkp/views.py
index 2d6765f426768f2ee0db95d180a5e1e0a5db682e..fa6b84acd8d8a14ae64e8d380d0996de8130641f 100644
--- a/app/hkp/views.py
+++ b/app/hkp/views.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class HttpNotImplementedError(HttpResponse):
 @require_safe
 def lookup(request):
     op = request.GET.get('op', None)
-    search = request.GET.get('search', None)  #.lower()
+    search = request.GET.get('search', None).lower()
     
     if op not in ["get"]:
         return HttpNotImplementedError("Not implemented")