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Update SBOM spec to indicate compat for syft (#1278)
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* Update SBOM spec to indicate compat for syft

This documents the support for syft json added in #1137 

Signed-off-by: Sambhav Kothari <skothari44@bloomberg.net>

* Reword SBOM wording to indicate that the formats are cosign specific

As noted by @VinodAnandan - the previous message may have caused confusion about NTIA recorgnized formats v/s formats cosign uses. Updating the wording to explicitly call out cosign supported formats.

Signed-off-by: Sambhav Kothari <skothari44@bloomberg.net>
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## MediaTypes

The two main SBOM formats in use are [SPDX](https://spdx.org) and [CycloneDX](https://cyclonedx.org/).
The SBOM formats supported by cosign are [SPDX](https://spdx.org), [CycloneDX](https://cyclonedx.org/) and [syft](https://github.com/anchore/syft).
The `mediaTypes` for these should be indicated in the `descriptor` for each `layer`.

The `mediaTypes` are:

* `application/vnd.cyclonedx`
* `text/spdx`
* `application/vnd.syft+json` (`syft` is a JSON only format)

These `mediaTypes` can contain format-specific suffixes as well. For example:

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