How to embed and protect some “text” files in my application

Question

My c++ application use some "text files", theses files are very important and I need to protect their content to be viewed/decrypted/extracted/dissassembled...

Also, if possible I would like to embed them in the DLL/EXE

Can you tell me if there is a way to achieve this? The code must be portable if possible!

Answer 1

The problem with embedded content is that you can only obfuscate it. Imagine that you encrypt the text files with some key; now you must distribute the decryption key with the executable so that it can read the files. OK, but now whoever extracts the text files can also extract the key...