https://go.dev/play/p/Aj7m_EiK1EX

package main

import (
	"encoding/asn1"
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	b, e := asn1.Marshal(struct{}{})
	fmt.Printf("%x, %s\n", b, e)
	b, e = asn1.Marshal(&struct{}{})
	fmt.Printf("%x, %s\n", b, e)
}

What did you expect to see?

Equal values for both prints.

What did you see instead?

3000, %!s(<nil>)
, asn1: structure error: unknown Go type: *struct {}

Ideally, Marshal (and arguably Unmarshal) should recurse through pointers as they do interfaces. Of course, encoding/asn1 is... not really the best ASN.1 library, so maybe we should put a comment on it saying to use crypto/cryptobytes and call it a day.