The best way I found to add explicitly tagged items in pyasn1 is to... explicitly tag them. But this looks overly verbose:
cert['tbsCertificate']['extensions'] = rfc2459.Extensions().subtype(explicitTag=tag.Tag(tag.tagClassContext, tag.tagFormatSimple, 3))
Is there any way to generate an empty value which will fit into a place like extensions
without specifying the tag?