this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th international conference on financial cryptography, fc 2002, held in southampton, bermuda, in march 2002. the 19 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. the papers are organized in topical sections on voting and recommending, auctions, cryptography, digital signature schemes, thresholds and secret sharing, and anonymity and digital payment systems.