Treadstone 71 continues to act as an unpaid (so far as I know) advertising agent for Sharif University.
From the university homepage:
Sharif University of Technology is one of the largest engineering schools in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was established in 1966 under the name of Aryarmehr University of Technology and, at that time, there were 54 faculty members and a total of 412 students who were selected by national examination. In 1980, the university was renamed Sharif University of Technology. SUT now has a total of 300 full-time faculty members, approximately 430 part-time faculty members and a student body of about 12,000.
Treadstone 71 has published course notes from an Advanced Network Security course on honeypots.
In part Treadstone 71 comments:
There are many documents available on honeypot detection. Not too many are found as a Master’s course at University levels. Sharif University as part of the Iranian institutionalized efforts to build a cyber warfare capability for the government in conjunction with AmnPardaz, Ashiyane, and shadowy groups such as Ajax and the Iranian Cyber Army is highly focused on such an endeavor. With funding coming from the IRGC, infiltration of classes and as members of academia with Basij members, Sharif University is the main driver of information security and cyber operations in Iran. Below is another of many such examples. Honeypots and how to detect them is available for your review.
It is difficult to find a Master’s degree in CS that doesn’t include coursework on network security in general and honeypots in particular. I spot checked some of the degree’s offered by schools listed at: Best Online Master’s Degrees in Computer Science and found no shortage of information on honeypots.
I recognize the domestic (U.S.) political hysteria surrounding Iran but security decisions based on rumor and unfounded fears aren’t the best ones.