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

Provided what "we" know about certain crypto fundamentals is correct (e.g., that it's Very Difficult to factor very large numbers), modern SSL is way secure.

The realistic threat ain't that somebody is going to crack SSL -- it's a much better bet that some other way of getting at the interesting data will be found.