The nature of the RSA public modulus N as a composite of at least two secret large primes was always considered as a major obstacle facing the RSA function sharing without the help of a trusted dealer. The incorporated parties must agree on a suitable RSA modulus with no information revealed to them about its prime factors. Enormous number of trials must be performed before a suitable modulus i...

Several models have been developed to extract the intrinsic elastic modulus of thin films from the composite film/substrate modulus value obtained from indentation tests on coated systems. Either analytical, semi-analytical or empirical, they generally propose an expression of the composite modulus as a function of the film and substrate elastic moduli and of the film thickness. When the substr...