How secure is SSL?

Question

How secure is SSL (Secure Socket Layer)? As in, how much will it take to crack a password sent through SSL?

Answer 1

till some bright spark sees a hole.

We thought that ssl was secure till the end of time - sorry altCognito => then recently some realised that md5 can be insecure.

Your only as secure as the crypto used to secure it and just because its is considered computational hard ie takes along time to brute force that doesnt factor for innvovation see the ps3 link.

Remember this is always thought about by humans, implemented by humans then run by computers.

Can you see the 2 issues there?

Also recently

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/12/forging_ssl_cer.html

and for a discussion on SSL3 read the experts - http://www.schneier.com/paper-ssl.html

http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212700234