diff --git a/src/encoding/asn1/marshal.go b/src/encoding/asn1/marshal.go
index c9ae2ca33e5244..0d34d5aa1e8152 100644
--- a/src/encoding/asn1/marshal.go
+++ b/src/encoding/asn1/marshal.go
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@
 package asn1
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math/big"
 	"reflect"
+	"sort"
 	"time"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 )
@@ -78,6 +80,48 @@ func (m multiEncoder) Encode(dst []byte) {
 	}
 }
 
+type setEncoder []encoder
+
+func (s setEncoder) Len() int {
+	var size int
+	for _, e := range s {
+		size += e.Len()
+	}
+	return size
+}
+
+func (s setEncoder) Encode(dst []byte) {
+	// Per X690 Section 11.6: The encodings of the component values of a
+	// set-of value shall appear in ascending order, the encodings being
+	// compared as octet strings with the shorter components being padded
+	// at their trailing end with 0-octets.
+	//
+	// First we encode each element to its TLV encoding and then use
+	// octetSort to get the ordering expected by X690 DER rules before
+	// writing the sorted encodings out to dst.
+	l := make([][]byte, len(s))
+	for i, e := range s {
+		l[i] = make([]byte, e.Len())
+		e.Encode(l[i])
+	}
+
+	sort.Slice(l, func(i, j int) bool {
+		// Since we are using bytes.Compare to compare TLV encodings we
+		// don't need to right pad s[i] and s[j] to the same length as
+		// suggested in X690. If len(s[i]) < len(s[j]) the length octet of
+		// s[i], which is the first determining byte, will inherently be
+		// smaller than the length octet of s[j]. This lets us skip the
+		// padding step.
+		return bytes.Compare(l[i], l[j]) < 0
+	})
+
+	var off int
+	for _, b := range l {
+		copy(dst[off:], b)
+		off += len(b)
+	}
+}
+
 type taggedEncoder struct {
 	// scratch contains temporary space for encoding the tag and length of
 	// an element in order to avoid extra allocations.
@@ -511,6 +555,9 @@ func makeBody(value reflect.Value, params fieldParameters) (e encoder, err error
 				}
 			}
 
+			if params.set {
+				return setEncoder(m), nil
+			}
 			return multiEncoder(m), nil
 		}
 	case reflect.String:
@@ -618,6 +665,15 @@ func makeField(v reflect.Value, params fieldParameters) (e encoder, err error) {
 		tag = TagSet
 	}
 
+	// makeField can be called for a slice that should be treated as a SET
+	// but doesn't have params.set set, for instance when using a slice
+	// with the SET type name suffix. In this case getUniversalType returns
+	// TagSet, but makeBody doesn't know about that so will treat the slice
+	// as a sequence. To work around this we set params.set.
+	if tag == TagSet && !params.set {
+		params.set = true
+	}
+
 	t := new(taggedEncoder)
 
 	t.body, err = makeBody(v, params)
diff --git a/src/encoding/asn1/marshal_test.go b/src/encoding/asn1/marshal_test.go
index a77826a7b034fd..529052285f5950 100644
--- a/src/encoding/asn1/marshal_test.go
+++ b/src/encoding/asn1/marshal_test.go
@@ -319,3 +319,60 @@ func BenchmarkMarshal(b *testing.B) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSetEncoder(t *testing.T) {
+	testStruct := struct {
+		Strings []string `asn1:"set"`
+	}{
+		Strings: []string{"a", "aa", "b", "bb", "c", "cc"},
+	}
+
+	// Expected ordering of the SET should be:
+	// a, b, c, aa, bb, cc
+
+	output, err := Marshal(testStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("%v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedOrder := []string{"a", "b", "c", "aa", "bb", "cc"}
+	var resultStruct struct {
+		Strings []string `asn1:"set"`
+	}
+	rest, err := Unmarshal(output, &resultStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("%v", err)
+	}
+	if len(rest) != 0 {
+		t.Error("Unmarshal returned extra garbage")
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(expectedOrder, resultStruct.Strings) {
+		t.Errorf("Unexpected SET content. got: %s, want: %s", resultStruct.Strings, expectedOrder)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSetEncoderSETSliceSuffix(t *testing.T) {
+	type testSetSET []string
+	testSet := testSetSET{"a", "aa", "b", "bb", "c", "cc"}
+
+	// Expected ordering of the SET should be:
+	// a, b, c, aa, bb, cc
+
+	output, err := Marshal(testSet)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("%v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedOrder := testSetSET{"a", "b", "c", "aa", "bb", "cc"}
+	var resultSet testSetSET
+	rest, err := Unmarshal(output, &resultSet)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("%v", err)
+	}
+	if len(rest) != 0 {
+		t.Error("Unmarshal returned extra garbage")
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(expectedOrder, resultSet) {
+		t.Errorf("Unexpected SET content. got: %s, want: %s", resultSet, expectedOrder)
+	}
+}