Unique identifier min 12 characters

I have a table with a numeric natural key and we need to send some information to an outside vendor, but don't want to send that natural key because of security/privacy concerns. We have pretty much decided to use a surrogate key. It could be numeric I suppose, but the requirements of the vendor is that it must be 12+ characters containing digits and A-F (hexadecimal essentially). I could use a GUID but there is a lot of data and the smaller the type the better. I have thought about converting the natural key to hex but A. the natural keys aren't always long enough to be at least 12 digits and B. that doesn't really mask the natural key very well - anyone with any hex knowledge can find the true ID easily.
So, if I were to generate a surrogate key it needs to be 12+ characters, hexadecimal characters only, and as small as possible with respect to storage space.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

if I were to generate a surrogate key it needs to be 12+ characters, hexadecimal characters only, and as small as possible with respect to storage space.
SQL> set numwidth 15
SQL> col s new_value s
SQL> select to_number ('100000000000', 'fmxxxxxxxxxxxx') s from dual
              S
17592186044416
1 row selected.
old: create sequence s_seq start with &s nocache
new: create sequence s_seq start with 17592186044416 nocache
SQL> create sequence s_seq start with 17592186044416 nocache
Sequence created.
SQL> select upper (to_char (s_seq.nextval, 'fmxxxxxxxxxxxx')) n
      from dual
connect by level <= 20
N
100000000000
100000000001
100000000002
100000000003
100000000004
100000000005
100000000006
100000000007
100000000008
100000000009
10000000000A
10000000000B
10000000000C
10000000000D
10000000000E
10000000000F
100000000010
100000000011
100000000012
100000000013
20 rows selected.

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