Wearless dry friction of an elastic block of weight N, driven by an ex
ternal force F over a rigid substrate, is investigated. The slider and
substrate surfaces are both microscopically rough, interacting via a
repulsive potential that depends on the local overlap. The model repro
duces Amontons's laws which state that the friction force is proportio
nal to the normal loading force N and independent of the nominal surfa
ce area. In this model, the dynamic friction force decays for large ve
locities and approaches a finite static friction for small velocities
if the surface profiles are self-affine on small length scales.