Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. In one example, a user equipment (UE), includes a memory and one or more processors configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the UE to determine a SCI stage 2 scrambling initialization value (Cinit) based on at least a portion of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code and a resource pool constant NCONST_RP, wherein NCONST_RP is configured for a resource pool allocated for sidelink communication by the UE; generate a scrambling sequence based on the SCI stage 2 Cinit; and transmit a SCI stage 2 to the second UE based on the scrambling sequence.