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Add paragraph about OCI referrers API
Signed-off-by: Cody Soyland <[email protected]>
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content/en/cosign/verifying/verify.md

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In order to use the new bundle format, you must set `--new-bundle-format=true` when signing or verifying. The new bundle format is coupled with an internal restructuring of the verification logic, including the switch to the Trusted Root file. For users operating a private Sigstore instance, this means that the `--trusted-root` flag is now required for verification.
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When using the new bundle format for signing container image attestations, Cosign now uses the OCI 1.1 Referrers API to store the attestation bundle in the registry as a referrer to the image. This is in contrast to the previous bundle format, which stored the individual signature, certificate, and other metadata as annotations on specially-tagged manifests. This makes image signatures more portable and easier to manage.
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You can take existing signed material and make a new protobuf bundle with `cosign bundle create ...`.
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## Experimental Features

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