> The weird part is that password managers provide no way for you to copy and paste your passkeys.

The main feature of passkeys is that they can't be pasted into a website they shouldn't be pasted in to. That means you can't copy them, by design.

They're just text behind the scenes, so you can copy them if you really want to. KeepassX lets you do it, and got into a kerfuffle about it.[1]

It's an impossible design. It's all just obfuscation, most of which is confusing to users.

	▲	robertlagrant 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> They're just text behind the scenes, so you can copy them if you really want to. KeepassX lets you do it, and got into a kerfuffle about it.[1] Yes - the kerfuffle is broadly I think the fact that it negates the main advantage of passkeys: people can't be tricked into pasting them into a fake login screen. > It's an impossible design. It's all just obfuscation, most of which is confusing to users. I agree - they're explained in a really odd way, and I think that's because they're a technology with multiple interaction patterns, rather than a single thing like a password. E.g. your fingerprint on your Mac is implemented as a passkey, or clicking on a browser passkey is also a passkey, or using a password manager via a different UI is also a passkey, or touching a Yubikey is also a passkey. The underlying mechanism (passkey) probably has been surfaced more than it should've been.