Sharing internet connection, not using WEP?

It appears to be impossible to share an internet connection wirelessly between two computers with anything other than WEP. Ideally, I'd want to use WPA or WPA2. I have an iMac which is connected to a wired network, and I would like to use it to allow me to connect to the internet with my iBook wirelessly. However, I am reluctant to do it with WEP due to the inherent insecurity with it.
Am I scuppered, or is there an option that I'm missing?
iMac 17" Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Am I scuppered, or is there an option that I'm missing?
You are missing a wifi router. Unfortunately internet sharing only support WEP. So if you want real security then you would be better investing in a wireless router.
Until then you could send apple a feature request and maybe they will add WPA as a feature in a future update.

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