alt Hacker News> 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.
> 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.
[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407