The document proposes a method to improve security for LSB2 steganography. It involves:
1. Using LSB2 to hide a message in a cover image, generating a holding image.
2. Encrypting the holding image by dividing it into blocks, reordering the blocks, and using the reordering sequence as a private key.
3. To extract the message, the encrypted image is decrypted using the private key, then LSB2 is applied to extract the message.
Experimental results show the proposed encryption reduces the peak signal to noise ratio and increases the mean squared error compared to LSB2 alone, improving security. Larger cover images provide better results for LSB2 hiding and