Content-Addressability

ClairCore treats both image hashes and layer hashes as content addressable.
Manifests MUST provide a content addressable hash uniquely identifying the image as a whole.
Layers MUST provide a content addressable hash unique identifying the layer's contents.

Reducing work

ClairCore will use content addressable hashes to understand what work it needs to perform.
If ClairCore comes across a image or layer hash which has been scanned by all configured scanners it will retrieve the existing results and not perform work.
If ClairCore is started with a new set of package scanners and encounters a previously seen image or layer hash it will rescan the image or layer.
ClairCore will only perform a scan with the missing scanner on the incoming image or layers.