Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates a first set of scrambler bits based on a destination page number associated with data, generates a second set of scrambler bits based on a programmable nonlinear function, and combines the first set of scrambler bits and the second set of scrambler bits into a scrambler seed. In one example, the technology also randomizes the data based on the scrambler seed to obtain outgoing randomized data and writes the outgoing randomized data to a non-volatile memory.