> If I knew it was a text editor and that it's password protected, I might just write my own text editor in C. I don't really see the point of obfuscating a text editor. If you want to take over the world, there's got to be an easier way! LOL

It's not only the editor. It's about mixing encryption and the editor, obfuscation, and also encryption / obfuscation of the memory.

And yes, there are editors out there, who can do encryption.
However, in my experience, the best action to improve security is to do something uncommon.

The other point is that I'd like to have a single statically linked executable without dependencies.
A few cheap tricks, and the success of "Uh, it's a perl script attached to perl itself"
becomes "uuuh. Now I've to reverse engineer the slightly changed perl, too".
At this point, I'd guess, if someone tries to steal my muddy secrets at all, he will choose another approach. :p