diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 2b021c40a3..9968a6348b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ preferences. Access to the REST API is restricted by use of the
 X-Edx-Api-Key HTTP header (which must match settings.EDX_API_KEY; if
 the setting is not present, the API is disabled).
 
+LMS: Added endpoints for AJAX requests to enable/disable notifications
+(which are not yet implemented) and a one-click unsubscribe page.
+
 Common: Added *experimental* support for jsinput type.
 
 Common: Added setting to specify Celery Broker vhost
diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/__init__.py b/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..daed38e2b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY = "notification_pref"
diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/tests.py b/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c70b19e92b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
+from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
+from django.http import Http404
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.test.client import Client, RequestFactory
+from django.test.utils import override_settings
+from mock import Mock, patch
+
+from notification_prefs import NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY
+from notification_prefs.views import ajax_enable, ajax_disable, unsubscribe
+from student.tests.factories import UserFactory
+from user_api.models import UserPreference
+
+
+@override_settings(SECRET_KEY="test secret key")
+class NotificationPrefViewTest(TestCase):
+    INITIALIZATION_VECTOR = "\x00" * 16
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        # Make sure global state is set up appropriately
+        Client().get("/")
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.user = UserFactory.create(username="testuser")
+        # Tokens are intentionally hard-coded instead of computed to help us
+        # avoid breaking existing links.
+        self.tokens = {
+            self.user: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA8mMQo96FZfb1YKv1R5X6s=",
+            # Username with length equal to AES block length to test padding
+            UserFactory.create(username="sixteencharsuser"):
+            "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPxPWCuI2Ay9TATBVnfw7eIj-hUh6erQ_-VkbDqHqm8D",
+            # Even longer username
+            UserFactory.create(username="thisusernameissoveryverylong"):
+            "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPECbYqPI7_W4mRF8LbTaHuHt3tNXPggZ1Bke-zDyEiZ",
+            # Non-ASCII username
+            UserFactory.create(username=u"\u4e2d\u56fd"):
+            "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMjfGAhZKIZsI3L-Z7nflTA="
+        }
+        self.request_factory = RequestFactory()
+
+    def create_prefs(self):
+        """Create all test preferences in the database"""
+        for (user, token) in self.tokens.items():
+            UserPreference.objects.create(user=user, key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY, value=token)
+
+    def assertPrefValid(self, user):
+        """Ensure that the correct preference for the user is persisted"""
+        self.assertEqual(
+            UserPreference.objects.get(user=user, key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY).value,
+            self.tokens[user]
+        )
+
+    def assertNotPrefExists(self, user):
+        """Ensure that the user does not have a persisted preference"""
+        self.assertFalse(
+            UserPreference.objects.filter(user=user, key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY).exists()
+        )
+
+    # AJAX enable view
+
+    def test_ajax_enable_get(self):
+        request = self.request_factory.get("dummy")
+        request.user = self.user
+        response = ajax_enable(request)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 405)
+        self.assertNotPrefExists(self.user)
+
+    def test_ajax_enable_anon_user(self):
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        request.user = AnonymousUser()
+        self.assertRaises(PermissionDenied, ajax_enable, request)
+        self.assertNotPrefExists(self.user)
+
+    @patch("Crypto.Random.new")
+    def test_ajax_enable_success(self, mock_random_new):
+        mock_stream = Mock()
+        mock_stream.read.return_value = self.INITIALIZATION_VECTOR
+        mock_random_new.return_value = mock_stream
+
+        def test_user(user):
+            request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+            request.user = user
+            response = ajax_enable(request)
+            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 204)
+            self.assertPrefValid(user)
+
+        for user in self.tokens.keys():
+            test_user(user)
+
+    def test_ajax_enable_already_enabled(self):
+        self.create_prefs()
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        request.user = self.user
+        response = ajax_enable(request)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 204)
+        self.assertPrefValid(self.user)
+
+    def test_ajax_enable_distinct_values(self):
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        request.user = self.user
+        ajax_enable(request)
+        other_user = UserFactory.create()
+        request.user = other_user
+        ajax_enable(request)
+        self.assertNotEqual(
+            UserPreference.objects.get(user=self.user, key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY).value,
+            UserPreference.objects.get(user=other_user, key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY).value
+        )
+
+    # AJAX disable view
+
+    def test_ajax_disable_get(self):
+        self.create_prefs()
+        request = self.request_factory.get("dummy")
+        request.user = self.user
+        response = ajax_disable(request)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 405)
+        self.assertPrefValid(self.user)
+
+    def test_ajax_disable_anon_user(self):
+        self.create_prefs()
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        request.user = AnonymousUser()
+        self.assertRaises(PermissionDenied, ajax_disable, request)
+        self.assertPrefValid(self.user)
+
+    def test_ajax_disable_success(self):
+        self.create_prefs()
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        request.user = self.user
+        response = ajax_disable(request)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 204)
+        self.assertNotPrefExists(self.user)
+
+    def test_ajax_disable_already_disabled(self):
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        request.user = self.user
+        response = ajax_disable(request)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 204)
+        self.assertNotPrefExists(self.user)
+
+    # Unsubscribe view
+
+    def test_unsubscribe_post(self):
+        request = self.request_factory.post("dummy")
+        response = unsubscribe(request, "dummy")
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 405)
+
+    def test_unsubscribe_invalid_token(self):
+        def test_invalid_token(token, message):
+            request = self.request_factory.get("dummy")
+            self.assertRaisesRegexp(Http404, "^{}$".format(message), unsubscribe, request, token)
+
+        # Invalid base64 encoding
+        test_invalid_token("ZOMG INVALID BASE64 CHARS!!!", "base64url")
+        test_invalid_token("Non-ASCII\xff", "base64url")
+        test_invalid_token(self.tokens[self.user][:-1], "base64url")
+
+        # Token not long enough to contain initialization vector
+        test_invalid_token("AAAAAAAAAAA=", "initialization_vector")
+
+        # Token length not a multiple of AES block length
+        test_invalid_token(self.tokens[self.user][:-4], "aes")
+
+        # Invalid padding (ends in 0 byte)
+        # Encrypted value: "testuser" + "\x00" * 8
+        test_invalid_token("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMoazRI7ePLjEWXN1N7keLw=", "padding")
+
+        # Invalid padding (ends in byte > 16)
+        # Encrypted value: "testusertestuser"
+        test_invalid_token("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC6iLXGhjkFytJoJSBJZzJ4=", "padding")
+
+        # Invalid padding (entire string is padding)
+        # Encrypted value: "\x10" * 16
+        test_invalid_token("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRGw8HDEmlcLVFawgY9wI8=", "padding")
+
+        # Nonexistent user
+        # Encrypted value: "nonexistentuser\x01"
+        test_invalid_token("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACpyUxTGIrUjnpuUsNi7mAY=", "username")
+
+    def test_unsubscribe_success(self):
+        self.create_prefs()
+
+        def test_user(user):
+            request = self.request_factory.get("dummy")
+            request.user = AnonymousUser()
+            response = unsubscribe(request, self.tokens[user])
+            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+            self.assertNotPrefExists(user)
+
+        for user in self.tokens.keys():
+            test_user(user)
+
+    def test_unsubscribe_twice(self):
+        self.create_prefs()
+        request = self.request_factory.get("dummy")
+        request.user = AnonymousUser()
+        unsubscribe(request, self.tokens[self.user])
+        response = unsubscribe(request, self.tokens[self.user])
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assertNotPrefExists(self.user)
diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/views.py b/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..893fc14a59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/notification_prefs/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode, urlsafe_b64decode
+from hashlib import sha256
+
+from Crypto.Cipher import AES
+from Crypto import Random
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
+from django.http import Http404, HttpResponse
+from django.views.decorators.http import require_GET, require_POST
+
+from mitxmako.shortcuts import render_to_response
+from notification_prefs import NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY
+from user_api.models import UserPreference
+
+
+class UsernameDecryptionException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class UsernameCipher(object):
+    """
+    A transformation of a username to/from an opaque token
+
+    The purpose of the token is to make one-click unsubscribe links that don't
+    require the user to log in. To prevent users from unsubscribing other users,
+    we must ensure the token cannot be computed by anyone who has this
+    source code. The token must also be embeddable in a URL.
+
+    Thus, we take the following steps to encode (and do the inverse to decode):
+    1. Pad the UTF-8 encoding of the username with PKCS#7 padding to match the
+       AES block length
+    2. Generate a random AES block length initialization vector
+    3. Use AES-256 (with a hash of settings.SECRET_KEY as the encryption key)
+       in CBC mode to encrypt the username
+    4. Prepend the IV to the encrypted value to allow for initialization of the
+       decryption cipher
+    5. base64url encode the result
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_aes_cipher(initialization_vector):
+        hash_ = sha256()
+        hash_.update(settings.SECRET_KEY)
+        return AES.new(hash_.digest(), AES.MODE_CBC, initialization_vector)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _add_padding(input_str):
+        """Return `input_str` with PKCS#7 padding added to match AES block length"""
+        padding_len = AES.block_size - len(input_str) % AES.block_size
+        return input_str + padding_len * chr(padding_len)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _remove_padding(input_str):
+        """Return `input_str` with PKCS#7 padding trimmed to match AES block length"""
+        num_pad_bytes = ord(input_str[-1])
+        if num_pad_bytes < 1 or num_pad_bytes > AES.block_size or num_pad_bytes >= len(input_str):
+            raise UsernameDecryptionException("padding")
+        return input_str[:-num_pad_bytes]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def encrypt(username):
+        initialization_vector = Random.new().read(AES.block_size)
+        aes_cipher = UsernameCipher._get_aes_cipher(initialization_vector)
+        return urlsafe_b64encode(
+            initialization_vector +
+            aes_cipher.encrypt(UsernameCipher._add_padding(username.encode("utf-8")))
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def decrypt(token):
+        try:
+            base64_decoded = urlsafe_b64decode(token)
+        except TypeError:
+            raise UsernameDecryptionException("base64url")
+
+        if len(base64_decoded) < AES.block_size:
+            raise UsernameDecryptionException("initialization_vector")
+
+        initialization_vector = base64_decoded[:AES.block_size]
+        aes_encrypted = base64_decoded[AES.block_size:]
+        aes_cipher = UsernameCipher._get_aes_cipher(initialization_vector)
+
+        try:
+            decrypted = aes_cipher.decrypt(aes_encrypted)
+        except ValueError:
+            raise UsernameDecryptionException("aes")
+
+        return UsernameCipher._remove_padding(decrypted)
+
+
+@require_POST
+def ajax_enable(request):
+    """
+    A view that enables notifications for the authenticated user
+
+    This view should be invoked by an AJAX POST call. It returns status 204
+    (no content) or an error. If notifications were already enabled for this
+    user, this has no effect. Otherwise, a preference is created with the
+    unsubscribe token (an ecnryption of the username) as the value.unsernam
+    """
+    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
+        raise PermissionDenied
+
+    UserPreference.objects.get_or_create(
+        user=request.user,
+        key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY,
+        defaults={
+            "value": UsernameCipher.encrypt(request.user.username)
+        }
+    )
+
+    return HttpResponse(status=204)
+
+
+@require_POST
+def ajax_disable(request):
+    """
+    A view that disables notifications for the authenticated user
+
+    This view should be invoked by an AJAX POST call. It returns status 204
+    (no content) or an error.
+    """
+    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
+        raise PermissionDenied
+
+    UserPreference.objects.filter(
+        user=request.user,
+        key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY
+    ).delete()
+
+    return HttpResponse(status=204)
+
+
+@require_GET
+def unsubscribe(request, token):
+    """
+    A view that disables notifications for a user who may not be authenticated
+
+    This view is meant to be the target of an unsubscribe link. The request
+    must be a GET, and the `token` parameter must decrypt to a valid username.
+
+    A 405 will be returned if the request method is not GET. A 404 will be
+    returned if the token parameter does not decrypt to a valid username. On
+    success, the response will contain a page indicating success.
+    """
+    try:
+        username = UsernameCipher().decrypt(token.encode())
+        user = User.objects.get(username=username)
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        raise Http404("base64url")
+    except UsernameDecryptionException as exn:
+        raise Http404(exn.message)
+    except User.DoesNotExist:
+        raise Http404("username")
+
+    UserPreference.objects.filter(user=user, key=NOTIFICATION_PREF_KEY).delete()
+
+    return render_to_response("unsubscribe.html", {})
diff --git a/lms/envs/common.py b/lms/envs/common.py
index f258b2f4a5..70c2ffcbaf 100644
--- a/lms/envs/common.py
+++ b/lms/envs/common.py
@@ -753,6 +753,9 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     # User API
     'rest_framework',
     'user_api',
+
+    # Notification preferences setting
+    'notification_prefs',
 )
 
 ######################### MARKETING SITE ###############################
diff --git a/lms/static/sass/application.scss.mako b/lms/static/sass/application.scss.mako
index 823587bf04..d30c0c16a1 100644
--- a/lms/static/sass/application.scss.mako
+++ b/lms/static/sass/application.scss.mako
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 @import 'shared/course_filter';
 @import 'shared/modal';
 @import 'shared/activation_messages';
+@import 'shared/unsubscribe';
 
 @import 'multicourse/home';
 @import 'multicourse/dashboard';
diff --git a/lms/static/sass/shared/_unsubscribe.scss b/lms/static/sass/shared/_unsubscribe.scss
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d870704a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/static/sass/shared/_unsubscribe.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+.container.unsubscribe {
+  padding: 60px 0px 120px;
+
+  h1 {
+    margin-bottom: 20px;
+    padding: 10px;
+    @extend .success-message-colors;
+  }
+
+  h1 + hr {
+    margin-bottom: 30px;
+  }
+
+  .message {
+    background: rgb(252,252,252);
+    border: 1px solid rgb(200,200,200);
+    box-shadow: 0 3px 20px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.2);
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    margin: 0 auto;
+    padding: 40px;
+    width: flex-grid(6);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/lms/templates/unsubscribe.html b/lms/templates/unsubscribe.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6f8c042d76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/templates/unsubscribe.html
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<%! from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse %>
+<%inherit file="main.html" />
+
+<%namespace name='static' file='static_content.html'/>
+
+<section class="container unsubscribe">
+
+  <section class="message">
+    <h1>Unsubscribe Successful!</h1>
+    <hr class="horizontal-divider">
+    
+    <p>
+      You will no longer receive notification emails from edX.
+      Click <a href="${reverse('dashboard')}">here</a> to return to your dashboard.
+    </p>
+  </section>
+</section>
diff --git a/lms/urls.py b/lms/urls.py
index 8c73a5555c..6c32face81 100644
--- a/lms/urls.py
+++ b/lms/urls.py
@@ -331,7 +331,10 @@ if settings.COURSEWARE_ENABLED:
             url(r'^courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/news$',
                 'courseware.views.news', name="news"),
             url(r'^courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/discussion/',
-                include('django_comment_client.urls'))
+                include('django_comment_client.urls')),
+            url(r'^notification_prefs/enable/', 'notification_prefs.views.ajax_enable'),
+            url(r'^notification_prefs/disable/', 'notification_prefs.views.ajax_disable'),
+            url(r'^notification_prefs/unsubscribe/(?P<token>[a-zA-Z0-9-_=]+)/', 'notification_prefs.views.unsubscribe'),
         )
     urlpatterns += (
         # This MUST be the last view in the courseware--it's a catch-all for custom tabs.
diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 4c4ab5a29f..dd9d8b5a3e 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ path.py==3.0.1
 Pillow==1.7.8
 pip>=1.3
 polib==1.0.3
+pycrypto>=2.6
 pygments==1.5
 pygraphviz==1.1
 pymongo==2.4.1