Encrypt Text Message as Image

Question

Is this a good idea to make the following text message encryption:

• accept text from the user 1
• store the text into a document in the form of some handwritten font
• convert the document into an image
• apply noise to the image
• encrypt the image somehow (hide the fact it is image)
• send the image to the user 2
• show the image to the user 2 as image

EDIT. My purposes:

1. Avoid existing widely used smartphone messaging apps, which could be which can be monitored by law enforcement agencies.
2. Make a simple own secure messaging application to just text exchange p2p
3. Be sure (as far as possible) that our messages will not be automatically intercepted by standard means used by law enforcement agencies. I don't know that standard means, and also can never know for sure
4. Provide greater resistance to interception than existing widely used smartphone messaging apps at the expense of some inconvenience

example:

Answer 1

The cryptography in existing apps is usually strong enough. This means that the focus of attackers (including law enforcement) is not to break the cryptography but to compromise the endpoints to get access to the messages before encryption or after decryption.

Your approach does not actually protect against this main attack vector. Instead you add some obfuscation by using an image and some noise. But this isn't actually sufficient to hide the message against someone who compromised the endpoint - especially if the message is intercepted already before obfuscation or after deobfuscation.

The only other obfuscation is to use an atypical application for communication. But if you are the target of an attacker who was able to compromise your endpoint, then this does not help much either. It is simple to check what applications are installed and then have a closer look at suspicious applications and their activity. This is assuming that your device was compromised since you were an explicit target, this means the attacker is actively looking for something interesting on your device.

In other words: it is probably not a good idea. At least it does not really help you to achieve your ultimate goal, which is to protect your communication from a highly capable attacker like law enforcement.

Answer 2

What you're looking for is probably something called Stenography and/or alternatively Obfuscation Is that correct? If yes;

then the answer to your question "Is this a good idea" would be, yes and no. It depends how you use Steganography or Obfuscation.

To give a really obvious example of the answer no: If you tell someone to find a hidden message inside of the image.

But what if you don't give any clues, and i.e placing the picture in a folder with lot of other pictures that looks kinda the same(like, same colors, and sizes, but different texts)? Then, it would be more secure. And, "a good idea" is maybe is a bit broad, do you mean cryptographicly secure? that it would be indistinguishable from a normal image?