Is it possible to sort a field that contains a hexadecimal string?

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I have a mapping as keyword which contains a hexadecimal string like:
5f4b455cf6b841508fb1fa24

which is a 12 byte object. Is it possible to ask ES to sort on this field by value? I don't want lexicographic order.

For example, given values:

5f4b455cf6b841508fb1fa24 and
5f4b455cf6b841508fb1fa1b

and I want to sort these in descending order, the result should return me

5f4b455cf6b841508fb1fa1b
5f4b455cf6b841508fb1fa24

since the first one is larger than the second one by value.

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